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 California based CEO’ operating in the Cloud Computing 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.
Omoju Miller
Technical Advisor to the CEO of GitHub
Omoju Miller is the Technical Advisor to the CEO at GitHub.
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About GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
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George Kurian
Chief Executive Officer of NetApp
George Kurian is chief executive officer at NetApp and a member of the Board of Directors. George joined the company in 2011, bringing his passion and relentless focus on execution to his leadership roles at NetApp. He was named CEO in June 2015. Previously at NetApp, as executive vice president of Product Operations, George was responsible for the strategy and development of NetApp’s product and solutions portfolio. Before that, George was senior vice president of the Data ONTAP Group overseeing development of the Data ONTAP operating system. George joined NetApp as senior vice president of the Storage Solutions Group, where he was responsible for the solutions portfolio and joint partner technology integration. Prior to joining NetApp, George was vice president and general manager of the Application Networking and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. George’s diverse background also includes the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading software engineering and product management teams at Oracle Corporation. George is also an independent director on the Board of global health services company Cigna Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Peter Reinhardt
CEO & Co-Founder of Segment
Peter Reinhardt is CEO and co-founder of Segment, the Customer Data Infrastructure (CDI) company. Founded in 2011, Peter has successfully grown Segment from three founders in a dorm room at MIT to a global company that has raised over $280 million. Segment has thousands of customers across 71 countries, from fast-growing businesses such as Atlassian, Bonobos and Instacart to some of the world’s largest organizations like Levi’s, Intuit, and Meredith. Peter was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in 2015. Before leaving to start Segment, Peter studied aerospace engineering at MIT.
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About Charm Industrial, Segment: Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Abraham King
Chairman and CEO of Immortal Machines
Abraham King is a co-Founder and CEO of Immortal Machines, a stealth mode startup headquartered in Palo Alto. Immortal Machines is building the next generation Cloud platform for Fortune 500 enterprises. Earlier, he was an entrepreneur in Aerospace and Defense working in partnership with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. King’s prior work is used by the U.S. Navy to build mission critical integrity verification platforms in Submarine Combat Systems, and by the U.S. Air Force to build Situational Awareness Systems to autonomously manage real time complex networks of Space based assets and Ground Control Systems. King was one of the creators of CERN’s Planet scale Cloud platforms — the pioneering Cloud fabric behind Large Hadron Collider, spanning across forty nations — usage of which has resulted in multiple Nobel Prizes. He led the international group which created the original technology blueprint in the United States, and later held multiple leadership and executive roles. King began his career with U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, and European Organization for Nuclear Research — working on Artificial Intelligence, Planet scale Distributed Computing, Cryptography, and Supercomputing.
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About Immortal Machines: Immortal Machines is building the next generation Cloud platform for large enterprises and Fortune 500 corporations.
Vlad Shmunis
Founder, CEO, Chairman of RingCentral
Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral’s cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
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
Jayshree Ullal
President & CEO of Arista Networks
As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista’s business and thought leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015, Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and one of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019. Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.
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About Arista Networks, StorSimple: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Steve Sloan
CEO of Contentful
Steve is responsible for Marketo’s long-term product roadmap, corporate strategy and partner ecosystem. Previously he led our product and engineering teams. He joined Marketo from Amazon Web Services, where he led product management for one of AWS’s emerging services and helped open the Silicon Valley development center. Prior to Amazon, Steve led product management for a range of products at Microsoft including Office 365, Exchange, Windows Azure and BizTalk. Steve also led various efforts at the XML and Web Services security startup Reactivity prior to its acquisition by Cisco. Steve holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Contentful, SendGrid: Contentful offers a headless content management system that helps organizations deliver content across channels.
Stephen Balaban
Co-Founder & CEO of Lambda
Stephen Balaban is the Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda.
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About Lambda, Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Vijay Tella
CEO & Co‑Founder of Workato
Vijay has led creation of market leading integration technologies for over 25 years. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world’s first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP, Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform in 2005.
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About Workato: Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.
Venky Balasubramanian
Co-founder and CEO of Plivo
Venky is the co-founder and CEO of Plivo.
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About Plivo: Plivo is a leading cloud communication platform that helps companies quickly program voice and SMS capabilities into their applications.
Alec Miloslavsky
founder and CEO of EIS Group
Alec Miloslavsky is the founder and CEO of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Gaurav Dhillon
Chairman & CEO of SnapLogic
Gaurav Dhillon is currently the Chairman and CEO of cloud connection company, SnapLogic. An early investor in SnapLogic, Gaurav Dhillon joined as CEO in 2009 to help realize the potential of its cloud and on-premise integration products, strategy, and unique business model. He is spearheading the company’s rapid growth and manages its financing, products, strategic relationships, and operations. As former CEO of Informatica Corporation, (Nasdaq; INFA) a data integration company that he co-founded in 1992, Gaurav led it from a startup idea to a leading worldwide software enterprise – ultimately forging a broad acceptance of the vision he pioneered. Prior to Informatica, Gaurav held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp.
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About SnapLogic: SnapLogic is a software company that provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration.
Derek Collison
Founder & CEO of Synadia Communications
Derek Collison is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synadia Communications. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek founded Apcera and has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software. Derek created NATS.io and CloudFoundry as well as TIBCO’s messaging systems. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Cloud Application Platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During Derek’s time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, Derek spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery. Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. Derek holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. Derek earned a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Covaxx, Heavybit, NATS, Savonix, Synadia Communications, Vicarious, Xperiel: Powering the secure connective technologies to drive cloud and edge native
Chris Hornor
Founder & CEO of Powerhive
Chris is founder and CEO at Powerhive, Inc., a technology venture founded in 2011 that offers access to productive, affordable, and reliable microgrid electricity. Powerhive focuses on financing, monetizing, and managing distributed electricity solutions through its proprietary technology platform and business model. Chris is an entrepreneur and recognized pioneer of consumer renewable energy product and services. During the last 15 years he has delivered renewable energy to more than two million people. As founder and CEO of Better Energy Systems he launched Solio, a portable solar charger that defined a new category of small-scale consumer energy solutions. In 2008 Chris led the expansion of Better Energy Systems into East Africa where he and his team introduced Club Solio, leveraging mobile money to create the first pay-as-you go renewable energy service for remote, off-grid regions. Chris has held senior posts at technology startups in the US, UK, and Japan where he identified and developed new revenue streams through emerging internet applications.
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About Powerhive: Powerhive unlocks productive, clean electricity for millions of households and businesses in emerging markets.
Paramesh Gopi
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
Dr. Paramesh Gopi joined us as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008 and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2009. On April 29, 2009, Dr. Gopi became a member of our Board of Directors. From September 2002 to June 2008, he was with Marvell Semiconductor, a provider of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits to broadband digital data networking markets, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit. At Marvell, Dr. Gopi held several executive-level positions including Chief Technology Officer of Embedded and Emerging Business Unit and Director of Technology Strategy. From June 2001 to August 2002, Dr. Gopi was Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications at Conexant Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal processing company. He joined Conexant Systems, Inc. as part of its acquisition of Entridia Corporation in 2001. Dr. Gopi founded Entridia, a provider of Network Processing ASICs for Optical Networks, in 1999. Prior to Entridia, Dr. Gopi held principal engineering positions at Western Digital and Texas Instruments where he was responsible for the development of key mixed signal networking products. Dr. Gopi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits, Starthub Nation: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
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.
Iddo Gino
Founder / CEO of RapidAPI
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About RapidAPI: RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables developers to find, manage, and connect to thousands of APIs.
Fabien Beckers
Founder & CEO of Arterys
Fabien Beckers is the CEO and co-founder of Arterys, a cloud/deep learning startup that is disrupting the medical imaging space and building image-based precision medicine tools. Fabien has led the growth of the company from four co-founders to a team of 34 today. Under his leadership, the company has become a pioneer in cloud-based medical imaging software, offering the first FDA-cleared end-to-end cloud infrastructure for medical imaging. They key advantages of the platform being automatic aggregation of real-world data and ability to scale and distribute the processing of increasingly large, complex datasets. Fabien’s vision for the company is to accelerate data-driven medicine by building precision medicine tools based on the consistent quantification of medical image features in combination with molecular, genomics and patient history data. Fabien holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Cambridge and a masters of business from Stanford University.
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About Arterys: Arterys is a medical imaging platform to deliver clinical AI products over the internet.
Bastin Gerald
Founder, CEO of Apptivo Inc.
Have a proven track record of taking initiatives and turning them to market-leading products and world-renowned award-winning positions. Established product strategy, recruited top talent and led international development teams that delivered profitable multi-million dollar new business application products covering Finance, Supply Chain Management & Product Lifecycle Management. Established mutually profitable strategic alliances to get favorable positioning for products. Developed aggressive field readiness plans and coordinated with marketing, analyst relations and media relations for several product launches. Authored well-received book targeted at business users and consultants.
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About Apptivo Inc., Profit.co, Sirahu Technologies: Apptivo is an integrated Cloud Suite with over 40+ apps for all types of businesses, including CRM, project management, invoicing, and more.
Renee James
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Ampere Computing
Renée James is President of Intel Corporation and is part of the company’s Executive Office. Renée has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, manufacturing, security, software and services, which she developed through product R&D leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel’s software subsidiaries. Renée has also been an overall leader in the development and implementation of the corporate strategy. During her 25 plus year career at Intel, Renée has spearheaded the company’s strategic expansion into providing proprietary and open source software and services for applications in enterprise, security and cloud-based computing. In her most recent role as executive vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group, she was responsible for Intel’s global software and services strategy, revenue, profit, and product R&D. In this role, Renée led Intel’s strategic relationships with the world’s leading device and enterprise operating systems companies. Previously, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Services, Intel’s datacenter services business. Early in her career Renée also served as chief of staff for former Intel CEO Andy Grove. Renée is Vice Chair of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. She served 7 years as independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a member of the C200 and a non-executive director of Sabre Corporation. Most recently Renée was nominated to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list, ranking 21st and was named on Forbes 100 list at number 37. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
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About Ampere Computing, Intel, The Carlyle Group: Ampere Computing develops data center processors for cloud servers.
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.
Joe Zhu
Founder & CEO of Zenlayer
Joe Zhu is the Founder and CEO of Zenlayer, a global software defined network and service provider with offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Zenlayer’s mission is to power a better connected world. To that end, under Joe’s leadership, Zenlayer has developed several software defined networking products that drastically simplify traditional storage and networking solutions. Prior to founding Zenlayer, Joe was the SVP of Global Business at ChinaCache, where he built up from scratch the global business unit of China’s largest CDN provider. Before ChinaCache, Joe worked as the Director of Network Operations at China Telecom (USA), where he oversaw China Telecom’s North American network operations and led the development of China Telecom’s global peering policy.
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About Zenlayer: Zenlayer operates as a software-defined network and services provider.
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.
Matt Carter
Chief Executive Officer of Aryaka Networks
Matt is a cloud and technology industry veteran, leading Aryaka’s long-term market strategy and day-to-day operations, while guiding the company’s vision for an increasingly connected world. Prior to this role, Matt served as President and CEO of Inteliquent Inc, a publicly traded provider of cloud-based networking services for global enterprises, which was successfully acquired by GCTR, a Chicago based PE firm. Matt previously held a series of executive positions with Sprint Corporation where he successfully led several of its major businesses. This includes serving as President of the Sprint Enterprise Solutions business that provided a diversified portfolio of communication platforms to companies in over 165 countries globally. He also served as President of Boost Mobile, a leading provider of no contract wireless services. Matt earned his master’s degree in general management from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
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About Aryaka Networks: Aryaka Networks provides a network optimization and application acceleration platform that addresses the connectivity needs of enterprises.
Anurag Gupta
Founder and CEO of Shoreline.io
Anurag Gupta is the founder and CEO of Shoreline Software. Prior to this, Anurag has served as a vice president of Amazon Aurora at Amazon Web Services.
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About Shoreline.io: Shoreline provides fleet-wide debugging and incident remediation tools that increase availability and streamline production operations.
J.J. Kardwell
CEO of Constant
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About Constant, Vultr Holdings Corporation: Constant is the creator of the Vultr cloud computing and bare-metal platform.
Ryan Horrigan
Co-founder and CEO of Artie
Ryan is the co-founder and CEO of Artie, a platform for next-gen games powered by AI. Artie enables developers to create and distribute hyper-personalized games where players interact with game characters via voice and computer vision. All of the games on our cloud-based platform can be shared and played instantly inside of popular apps, including Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, with no download needed. For our launch titles, we are partnering with global entertainment studios, superstar athletes, and A-list music artists. We will be opening our platform to third-party developers in early 2020. Our team includes AI scientists, engineers, and technical artists from Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Snap, Facebook, Mozilla, Playtika, WayForward, and Carbonated Games. Early investors include Founders Fund, Warner Music Group, Scooter Braun’s Raised in Space, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, angel investor Cyan Banister, and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. Prior to co-founding Artie, Ryan served as Chief Content Officer of the Comcast-backed immersive media startup Felix & Paul Studios, where he oversaw content and business development, strategy and partnerships. At Felix & Paul, Ryan helped forge numerous partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and media conglomerates including Facebook, Google, Samsung, Fox and Comcast, and worked on projects with top brands and A-list talent such as NASA, Cirque du Soleil, President Obama, LeBron James, Wes Anderson, Judd Apatow, and Brie Larson. In 2018, Ryan and the Felix & Paul team won an Emmy for ‘The People’s House,” featuring President Barack Obama, as well as a Peabody for immersive comedy experience “Miyubi.” Prior to Felix & Paul, Ryan was a studio executive at Fox/New Regency, where he oversaw films including Academy Award Best Picture Winner “12 Years A Slave.” He began his career in the Motion Picture department at CAA, and at Paramount. Ryan has spoken at Ted X, Cannes, Facebook, Google, Sundance, SXSW and throughout China. He was a Hollywood Reporter 35 Under 35 honoree. He lives in Los Angeles, California
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About Artie: A Web3 mobile gaming company. Play on social media. No app download needed.
Suresh Katta
Founder & CEO of Saama
Suresh founded Saama Technologies, Inc. with a vision to turn raw data into actionable insights that enable enterprise leaders to make timely and reliable decisions for critical business discovery. As the CEO of Saama, Suresh is responsible for the strategy, vision and the execution of the company’s long-term plan. Suresh applied his lifelong love of mathematics to solve complex data analysis well before the term “big data” became ubiquitous. Today, Saama is made up of intelligent, helpful people with a passion for math, data, and analytics. Since the company’s launch, Suresh and his team have built an extensive history of providing data scientist led solutions and services in the big data and business analytics market for top enterprise companies, and public sector agencies. Suresh has successfully launched two start ups, including co-founding GVI, which developed groupware applications and was sold to Netscape in 1995. His work has earned industry-wide recognition and he can frequently be seen at IT conferences as a discussion panel member and featured speaker. Suresh earned his M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Southwest Louisiana, and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering at the University of Bangalore in India.
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Chris Kantrowitz
CEO, Founder of Gobbler
Chris is a serial entrepreneur in gaming, technology, and music. At age 14, he founded his first company– a game testing business for clients like Sony Imagesoft. After university, he co-founded 3D Groove, online gaming technology company that powered the first online 3D games at sites like shockwave.com and nickelodeon.com. In 2003, he started ODVD games, whose premiere title, “Shout!â€, a pop culture interactive DVD trivia game,was distributed globally by Hasbro and is returning in 2011. In 2006, Chris combined his passion for creative and technology and co-founded Frank the Plumber, a leading concert design and production company creating digital and live experiences for such artists as Akon, The Strokes, Lady Antebellum, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Madonna and brands like Ford, Apple and AOL. Most recently, he founded his third technology company, Gobbler, along with his sister Jamie. Gobbler is a purpose built cloud for media creators and the software companies who provide tools to them.
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About Gobbler, Mootral: The largest marketplace for subscription pro-audio plugins.
Tiago Paiva
Founder and CEO of Talkdesk
Tiago Paiva is the Founder of Talkdesk, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Talkdesk: Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Ashok Reddy Gudibandla
Founder, CEO of Automate.io
Founder, CEO at Automate.io.
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About Automate.io: Use tens of cloud apps? Connect them the way you want. Sync data, automate workflows – marketing, sales and more.
Sridhar Vembu
CEO and Founder of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of [Zoho Corp.](/organization/zoho) (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless communications. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Site24x7, Zoho: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications.
Caroline Tsay
CEO & Co-founder of Compute Software
Caroline is CEO of Compute Software, an enterprise cloud infrastructure software company. Prior to Compute Software, Caroline was Vice President and General Manager of Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2013 to 2016. She previously held product leadership positions at Yahoo! across the e-commerce, search, and advertising businesses. Before Yahoo!, she spent three years at IBM Global Services as a Senior Consultant in Supply Chain and CRM. Caroline serves as an independent board director for Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) and Rosetta Stone (NYSE: RST), and a Strategic Advisor to late stage VC-backed AdRoll. She has been recognized as Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 and The National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. She holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Caroline Tsay
CEO & Co-founder of Compute Software
Caroline is CEO of Compute Software, an enterprise cloud infrastructure software company. Prior to Compute Software, Caroline was Vice President and General Manager of Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2013 to 2016. She previously held product leadership positions at Yahoo! across the e-commerce, search, and advertising businesses. Before Yahoo!, she spent three years at IBM Global Services as a Senior Consultant in Supply Chain and CRM. Caroline serves as an independent board director for Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) and Rosetta Stone (NYSE: RST), and a Strategic Advisor to late stage VC-backed AdRoll. She has been recognized as Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 and The National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. She holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University.
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About Compute Software: Compute Software is a cloud optimization platform that maximizes cloud cost savings, performance, and Engineering productivity, all at once.
Eric Gundersen
CEO of Mapbox
As CEO of Mapbox, Eric coordinates product and business development. Eric is passionate about open data and building open source data visualization tools focused on speed and design. Prior to Mapbox, Eric co-founded Development Seed. Eric is a recognized expert on open data and open source software and has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Nightline, NPR, and others. He holds a master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, DC, and has dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and international relations.
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About Mapbox: Mapbox is a location data platform for mobile and web applications.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Michael Fey
CEO of D2iq
Michael Fey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Island
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About D2iq, Island: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Tobi Knaup
Co-CEO of D2iq
Tobi Knaup was one of the first engineers and engineering leaders at Airbnb. At Airbnb, he wrote large parts of the infrastructure including the search and fraud prediction services. He helped scale the site to millions of users and build a world class engineering team. Tobi is the main author of Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for managing long-running services.
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About D2iq: D2iQ offers elastically run containers and data services at scale, with complete hybrid cloud portability.
Daniel Odio
CEO & Founder of Armory
Daniel Odio is CEO and co-founder of Socialize, Inc.Socialize is a cloud-based, turn-key social service distributed through APIs and SDKs with a focus on mobile integration. There are massive communities of users hiding inside each mobile app. Socialize is the first platform to leverage each app interest-graph, turning on the lights and letting passionate users rally around the app’s core content. Socialize also created AppMakr, the largest Do It Yourself mobile app creation platform for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps. AppMakr is used by brands like PBS, Newsweek, PGA TOUR, Harvard Business Review, US Congress, MacLife, Accenture and thousands of others. Over 1.5% of all apps in the iTunes App Store were created using AppMakr. Previously, Daniel earned his Series 22 & 63 securities licenses and real estate broker’s license to start Cardéa Commercial Real Estate Advisors, a commercial real estate brokerage specializing in tax-efficient real estate investments, and DROdio Real Estate, Inc, a residential real estate brokerage. Daniel also served on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of REALTORS and his real estate endeavors were featured on the cover of the The Wall Street Journal Marketplace section in July 2004. Prior to real estate, Daniel was the VP, Sales of AcceleratedServers, a Beowulf supercomputing cluster company whose customers included the Department of Defense and Paramount Pictures.Daniel has been featured on CNN, CNBC, TLC, Forbes, BBC and many other publications for his innovative use of technology in industries ranging from real estate to computer servers and mobile phones. Daniel was a member of General Electric Technical Leadership Program. Daniel worked for GE in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina. Daniel graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce, speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife.
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Shioupyn Shen
Founder & CEO of CloudMosa
Shioupyn Shen is the Founder and CEO at CloudMosa.
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About CloudMosa: CloudMosa is a mobile technology company committed to accelerating and enriching the mobile web browsing experience.
Suresh Sambandam
Founder & CEO of Kissflow
Suresh Sambandam is the CEO of Kissflow, the first unified digital workplace for organizations to manage all of their work on a single, unified platform. Kissflow is used by over 10,000 customers across 160 countries, including more than fifty Fortune 500 companies. Suresh is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize cutting-edge technologies and help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate their work through an intuitive blend of collaboration, coordination and control. He has three US patents to his credit.
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About Kissflow, OrangeScape: Kissflow is a leading SaaS software provider in the work management space.
Chetan Venkatesh
co-founder and CEO of Macrometa
Founder and executive focused on enterprise data center, cloud infrastructure, and software products/companies. Strong competency in helping early-stage teams find & exploit product-market fit, early customer wins to repeat sales and scaling startups from pre-revenue to growth stage and profitability. Experienced in building strong and productive teams in sales, product development, product management, gaining early lighthouse customer wins, stage centric positioning with customers & partners, venture scaling and capital raise (equity and debt) Chetan Venkatesh was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantis.
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About Macrometa: Macrometa specializes in developing real-time stateful server-less applications.
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.
Mohit Lad
Co-Founder & CEO of ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad received a Ph.D. from UCLA where he worked on building systems for Internet routing fault diagnosis and security. Mohit built Link-Rank, tool for visualizing routing dynamics. His work on route hijacking led to PHAS, one of the first systems to detect and alert on routing security problems. Mohit spent a year at Nokia building tools for analyzing the quality of Nokia’s mobile services. Since January 2010, Mohit has been involved in Thousand Eyes, a company he co-founded with Ricardo Oliveira.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Raj Narayanaswamy
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Replicon
Raj Narayanaswamy is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Replicon Inc.
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About Replicon: We help businesses capture, manage and optimize their most underutilized asset – time.
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.
Charles Giancarlo
CEO & Chairman of Pure Storage
Charles Giancarlo has served on the Vectra Networks board of directors since April 2014 and was previously an advisor to the company. Giancarlo is a Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners and was previously Managing Director and Head of Value Creation. He previously served as a senior executive at Cisco Systems, most recently as executive vice president and chief development officer. At Cisco, he led the company’s overall product development and management activities and was responsible for over 80 percent of the company’s revenue. Giancarlo serves on the boards of Accenture, Arista, Blue Jeans Network, Imperva, ItsOn, ServiceNow and Soraa, and is the chairman of the board of Avaya. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University where he serves on the board of trustees, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the board of advisors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Praful Saklani
Co-Founder and CEO of Pramata
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About Pramata: Pramata helps B2B enterprises maximize revenue by knowing the exact contract details and order history for each customer.
Ashley Crowder
CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA
Ashley Crowder is the co-founder and CEO of VNTANA, an industry leading augmented reality platform for creating and distributing premium mixed reality experiences. Prior to co-founding VNTANA she graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and gained valuable manufacturing experience at Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and BP. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development. Ashley was featured as one of USC’s leading engineering CEOs of 2016. Ashley is a part of the Microsoft Early Developer Program along with the Microsoft Bizspark Plus program. Ashley has been a speaker at SXSW, Digital Summit, Internet Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx Venice, the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies & Technology Pioneers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, The Montgomery Summit, Siemer Summit, Digital LA, and others.
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Anshu Agarwal
CEO & Co-Founder of Nimbella
Anshu Agarwal has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, building products for organizations large and small across the globe. Most recently she was CMO and VP of Product at Cedexis. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the OpenDaylight Project, promoting the adoption of an open-source software-defined networking (SDN) platform. She led product and marketing teams at four infrastructure startups: Cedexis (acquired by Citrix, 2018), ConteXtream (acquired by HPE, 2015), Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks, 2010), and Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai, 2005). Anshu holds a B.S. in Electronics from IIT/Roorkee, India; an M.S. in Electrical from Rutgers, New Jersey; and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Illinois.
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About Nimbella: Cloud-agnostic, developer-friendly serverless cloud platform
Vijay Rayapati
Founder and CEO of Minjar
Vijay Rayapati cofounded Minjar, Inc. He serves as Chief Technology Officer of Giza Network Private Limited. Mr. Rayapati has been Chief Technology Officer at Kuliza Technologies since March 2011. He served as Chief Technology Officer and Product Management at GizaPage.com from May 2009 to March 2011. He was a Consultant at Smm-strategist.com from February 2009 to February 2010 and served as Technical Consultant at Trilogy from January 2007 to May 2009. He Co-founded Amnigos Technologies Pvt Ltd in January 2007 and served as Java Developer at Michelin – TCS from August 2006 to January 2007. He serves as a Director of Minjar, Inc. He received B.E, Computer Science Engineering from Osmania University in 2006.
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About Minjar, Nutanix Beam: Minjar is a global cloud solutions company providing cloud optimisation and intelligent operations platform to businesses.
Mohit Aron
Founder & CEO of Cohesity
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Vladimir Lounegov
Co-Founder, CEO of Mbanq
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About Mbanq: Mbanq builds digital banking technology that enables you to create a better bank for your customers
JP La Torre
Co-Founder & CEO of Caylent
JP La Torre is the Co-founder and CEO of Caylent, which provides DevOps managed service and consulting for software teams running containers and Kubernetes. Early crypto adopter. Co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Mines, a provider of turnkey crypto mining solutions. Southwest Director and founding board member of Blockchain & Crypto Mining Association (BCMA).
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About Caylent: Full spectrum AWS Cloud Native and DevOps consulting partner
Said Ouissal
CEO & Founder of ZEDEDA
Said Ouissal is the CEO and founder of ZEDEDA, the leader in orchestration for the distributed edge. He has extensive experience in senior leadership positions across IP networking (routing, switching, and security), telecommunications, cloud, and mobile broadband. Prior to ZEDEDA, he held executive product management and (technical) sales roles at various infrastructure companies, including Ericsson, Juniper Networks, Redback Networks, and Violin Memory.
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About ZEDEDA: ZEDEDA is a provider of distributed edge orchestration and virtualization software.
Michael Rodriguez
Founder & CEO of DreamHost
Founder at DreamHost.
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About DreamHost: DreamHost provides web hosting, domain registration, and cloud services for individuals, small businesses, and developers.
Paul Martini
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of iboss
As CEO, CTO, and co-founder of iboss Cybersecurity,Paul Martini pioneered the award-winning iboss Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and has furthered iboss’ position as a leading security innovator with the introduction of FireSphere™ Advanced APT Defense. Prior to founding iboss, Paul was with an electrical engineering firm where he developed proprietary security solutions for clients such as Phogenix, the U.S. Navy and Hewlett Packard, leading the design and implementation efforts for HP’s e-tester used in their TIJ print heads. He was also a key contributor at Copper Mountain Networks and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), both of which, launched successful IPO’s. Paul holds a computer science degree from the University of California, San Diego and has had his work published in prestigious scientific journals including, the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Journal of Analytical Biochemistry. As a recognized security expert, he has been featured in a wide range of publications such as USA Today, Forbes, and CSO magazine. Paul has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst Young 2014 Entrepreneur Of The Year™ award in the technology category for San Diego, and one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014. He is committed to the advancement of San Diego as a cyber-security hub, and is a member of the Cyber Security Sub Committee for CAL OES (California Office of Emergency Services) and also serves on the board of the San Diego Economic Development Committee.
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
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.
Charles Liang
Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Supermicro
Charles Liang founded Supermicro and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for the past two decades. From July 1991 to August 1993, Mr. Liang was President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., a high-end motherboard design and manufacturing company. From January 1988 to April 1991, Mr. Liang was Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and Suntek Information International Group, a system and software development company. Mr. Liang has been granted many server technology patents. Mr. Liang holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
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.
Amit Narayan
Founder / CEO of Autogrid
Amit Narayan is the Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Director of Smart Grid Research in Modeling & Simulation at Stanford University, where he continues to lead an interdisciplinary project related to modeling, optimization and control of the electricity grid and associated electricity markets. Prior to founding AutoGrid, Dr. Narayan was the Vice President of Products at the publicly traded company Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), where he led the product development and product management teams responsible for Magma’s flagship product in the design implementation area. Over one third of all semiconductor chips used in consumer electronic devices — such as smart phones, blue-ray players and video games — were designed using products developed by Dr. Narayan’s team at Magma. Prior to joining Magma, Dr. Narayan founded Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a venture-backed company in analog and radio-frequency semiconductor design software and served as its founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all research and product development activities, as well as customer engagements. Under Dr. Narayan’s leadership, BDA saw its products adopted by over 100 semiconductor companies in the world (including 20 out of the top 25). For his work at BDA, Dr. Narayan’s received the EDN’s “Innovation for the Year” award in 2006.Dr. Narayan received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation, holds seven U.S. patents and is an active advisor to several startup companies in the Bay Area.
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About Autogrid, Berkeley Design Automation: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Emmanuel Vallod
CEO & Co-Founder of SumUp Analytics
Emmanuel Vallod is the CEO and Co-Founder at SumUp Analytics.
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About SumUp Analytics: SumUp helps organizations denoise and understand their text data.
Aman Mann
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Procurify
Crazy Passion for Innovation or just Crazy! Aman is our Chief Executive Officer. He creates, communicates, and implements the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction. His experience in the business world and understanding of needs is a tremendous asset to the company. When he is not working, he is usually working out or trying to expand his mind with new adventures. Recently, he participated in the Tough Mudder 2012 competition in Whistler, BC.
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About Procurify: Procurify streamlines purchases, gives optimized spending, and increases visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.
Akash Takyar
CEO of LeewayHertz Technologies
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About LeewayHertz Technologies: LeewayHertz is a blockchain development company, providing scalable and robust blockchain solutions to enterprises and startups.
Nicolas Stehle
Co-Founder & CEO of Scalefast
Nicolas Stehle is the founder and CEO at Scalefast, a leading full-service e-commerce solution provider that builds and operates Direct-to-Consumer online stores for brands that want to accelerate online sales without the time, cost, and risk of in-house development. After creating five companies in just 15 years, Nicolas is considered a serial entrepreneur in high tech fields. With Scalefast, his biggest venture to-date, Nicolas helps clients build and manage brands’ global e-commerce channels so they can focus on their customers’ needs. Since its inception in 2014, Scalefast Enterprise Cloud Commerce Platform has processed more than 14 million transactions, in 240 countries, for major brands like Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco Entertainment. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris and Madrid, Scalefast brings a synchronized, international team to deliver consistent digital consumer experience around the globe. Throughout his career, Nicolas has developed a reputation for creating successful start-ups and managing the high-impact growth within each of the companies. In total, Nicolas founded and held executive roles in three companies (Scalefast, Like Me I’m Famous and Everbee), and non-executive director and board member positions in two others (Flexycore and Slimpay). Before he graduated university, Nicolas patented an innovative approach to Network Security, raised 3M€ for the technology and had a fully operational business. He has a wide swath of experience with tech companies in a variety of industries ranging from Network security (Everbee), big data (Like Me I’m Famous), Payment (Slimpay) and successfully exited Flexycore, first French company acquired by Google Inc.
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About Scalefast: Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands.
Rob Brewster
CEO of GoFormz
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About GoFormz, Stage 2 Capital: GoFormz helps its customers to transform into data-driven businesses with its mobile-first business productivity platform.
Marcin Kurc
Founder – CEO of Nobl9
marcin kurc is the Chief Executive Officer at Meshmark.
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About Nobl9: Nobl9 is a service level objective platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow.
Rich Waldron
Co-founder & CEO of tray.io
Rich Waldron is the CEO and co-founder of Tray.io.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Anant Bhardwaj
Chief Executive Officer of Instabase
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder & CEO of Instabase. Prior to Instabase, he was a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
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About Instabase: Instabase provides a broad technology platform, and an app store for businesses applications.
Christina Apatow
CEO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
Christina is obsessed with building the future and solving complex problems. She speaks on AI, digital transformation, customer experience, and human centered design. Christina is elected to the Airport Council International Steering Group for Marketing and Customer Experience. Prior to FetchyFox, Christina was VP Client Solutions for API.AI/DialogFlow (exit Google 2016) where she helped build the successful AI company. Christina led BD, sales and served as the main technical point of contact for the company from their launch in September 2014. Christina also worked at Lockheed Martin in Ballistic Missile Defense, Satellite Systems and VR. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and is deeply passionate about painting, and Jiu Jitsu.
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About Airports Council International – Aci World, FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Dan Rodrigues
CEO, Founder of Kareo
Dan Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Kareo. He founded the company in 2004 with a vision of simplifying medical offices with web-based medical billing software that replaces the expensive and complex medical billing and practice management systems doctors have today. Under Dan’s leadership, Kareo has since created the most user-friendly, easy-to-buy, and easy-to-setup software on the market offering immediate benefits with reduced risks and costs. Prior to launching Kareo, Dan started creating technology for the healthcare industry in 2001 as a co-founder and managing partner of Skematix, a software consulting firm based in Southern California. Among the various projects he led, Dan designed and built a web-based medical billing software and healthcare information system for a national medical billing company. During his tenure at Skematix, Dan also designed an online auction service for industrial equipment, a self-service Internet kiosk for airports, and an online music service. In the late 1990’s, Dan was the co-founder and CEO of Scour, a very popular search engine for finding music and video files online used by more than 10 million consumers. Scour played a transformational role in driving the music and entertainment industries towards the digital distribution of their content over the Internet. With Scour, Dan raised $12.5 million in venture capital financing from Michael Ovitz, Ron Burkle, and Ron Conway, lead a 70-person organization, designed the Scour Exchange peer-to-peer software downloaded by more than 7 million registered users, developed other patented technologies, and sold the company in 2000. Dan began his career as a software developer for RealNetworks and Visio. With RealNetworks, Dan developed the first ad-insertion and pay-per-view technologies for streaming music and video on the Internet. With Visio, Dan developed Internet software enabling users to find and download shapes directly into Visio, the award-winning business diagramming software that was later acquired by Microsoft in 1999 and integrated with the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity software. Dan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and grew up in Orange County, California.
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About Kareo: Kareo delivers cloud-based software that helps independent practices run a successful business and provide better patient care.
Todd Greene
CEO of PubNub
Todd Greene is the co-founder and CEO of PubNub. As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procurement solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
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About PubNub: PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Tolga Tarhan
CEO of Kibsi
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About Kibsi: Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications
Amy DuRoss
Co-Founder & CEO of Vineti
Amy focuses on healthcare new business creation for GE Ventures/healthymagination. In addition to venture investments, Amy is driving growth strategy for new business creation portfolio companies as well as scoping and seeding independent business opportunities. Amy was Chief Business Officer at Navigenics, a genomics company sold to Life Technologies in 2012. She was the co-founder and Executive Director of Proposition 71,California’s $3B stem cell research initiative passed in 2004, as well as Chief of Staff at the resulting state grant oversight agency. Earlier in her career, Amy was an early employee at E-Loan, Inc., the first online consumer mortgage company, with that company through its IPO. She also worked for the World Bank Group to scale and deliver leapfrog technologies to developing economies. Amy holds an MBA and MA/BA in English from Stanford University. She was also a Coro Fellow and an Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow.
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About Vineti: Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies.
Jim Bugwadia
Founder & CEO of Nirmata
Jim is the founder and CEO at Nirmata, a San Francisco Bay area startup in the Enterprise DevOps space. Jim started his career developing large-scale distributed software at Motorola for cellular network infrastructure, where his team launched the world’s first CDMA network. Since then Jim has held several developer, architect, and leadership roles at companies like Bell Labs, Cisco, Trapeze Networks, and Pano Logic and others. In 2013 Jim founded Nirmata, a startup focused on solving Enterprise DevOps pain points, by providing multi-cloud management of Microservices style applications that are deployed using containers.
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About Nirmata: Nirmata is a unified management plane for Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
Deepak Garg
CEO of Smart Energy Water (SEW)
Deepak Garg, responsible for the product technology, innovation, vision, strategy, and leadership of SEW, has developed high-powered business and technology teams that have successfully developed leading Energy & Utilities Customer Engagement & Mobile Workforce with Smart iQ™ platforms addressing Energy & Utilities industry key challenges in areas of Customer Outreach, Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Smart Grid Reliability, Work Efficiency, Field Mobility and Big data. Deepak has a MS in Computer Science with Bachelor degree in engineering along with executive management from Stanford Graduate Business School & MIT.
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About Smart Energy Water (SEW), Smart Energy Water (SEW): Smart Energy Water (SEW) – #1 Global Smart Energy & Water Cloud CX – Customer Experience / Mobile WorkForce / AI/ML/IoT Platform.
JT Giri
CEO & Co-Founder of nClouds
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About nClouds, nOps: nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services.
Dominic Holt
CEO of harpoon
My passion for technology has enabled me to be a trusted resource from start-ups all the way up to multi-billion dollar organizations due to my vision to design aggressive growth plans leveraging advanced technologies. I have a unique skill set as a Technology Executive because I am constantly learning and applying new technologies personally by writing code, which gives me an edge over other executives who don’t truly understand the technologies their teams use. I thrive in creating new revenue streams that have generated billions of dollars in income and helped emerging tech leaders secure vital VC funding. I am a fast-achieving executive that began my career as a Software Engineer and have grown to be an international business leader that is highly sought after to provide strategic counsel on product development, technology selection, software architecture, customer experience and other areas central to business success.
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About harpoon, Valerian Technology: harpoon is a No Code Kubernetes platform
Guy Shani
CEO Company Name of Clarizen
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About Clarizen, DevOps Sherpas: Clarizen is a global leader in project management and collaborative work management software.
Sebastian Stadil
Founder, CEO of Scalr
Sebastian has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 5000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the industry. Recently, Sebastian founded Scalr, a software-project-turned-startup that scales website infrastructure automagically. When he is not working on Scalr, Sebastian likes to make sushi and play rugby.
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About Scalr: Scalr is a cloud management platform that empowers enterprises to deliver and consume cloud in a secure and cost-efficient manner.
Wade Foster
Co-founder & CEO of Zapier
Wade Foster is the co-founder of Y-Combinator startup Zapier. Zapier lets SaaS users create integrations that push data between hundreds of best-in-breed web applications without having to write any code or wrangle APIs.
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About Zapier: Zapier allows its users to easily connect and automate the apps they use.
Kumar Srikantan
President & CEO of Pluribus Networks
Kumar Srikantan is the president and chief executive officer of [Pluribus Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pluribus-networks#/entity). Previously, he was the vice president and general manager of engineering at Cisco Systems. Srikantan obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and master’s degree in computer science from Rice University. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Pluribus Networks: Pluribus Networks is a leader in open networking and next generation software defined networking (SDN)
Raj Mamodia
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Brillio
Raj Mamodia is Chief Executive Officer of Brillio and responsible for the company’s strategy and operations globally. Raj comes with a wealth of experience in corporate strategy, sales, go-to-market planning, operations, client engagement and financial management. At Brillio, Raj spearheads the company’s next growth wave setting the direction for a rapid and sustainable journey to become a recognized and reputed information technology service provider. Raj comes to us from Cognizant where he served as the Head of Global Markets for the IT Infrastructure business. As part of the leadership team at Cognizant, he held several key positions such as the Head of Global Markets for Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy and Utilities, Head of the Consumer Goods business and Head of Sales for various products and industries. In his 12 year tenure at Cognizant, Raj was instrumental in supporting rapid and profitable business growth by leading several business units and incubating several capabilities for the first time in the company. Prior to Cognizant, Raj was at IBM Global Services and Larsen & Toubro Ltd., where he gained valuable hands on experience with IT services and sales. Raj holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BE from MNIT Allahabad.
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About Brillio: Brillio is a global technology consulting and technology services company focused on the implementation of digital technologies
Oleg Sotnikov
CEO of AppMaster.io
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About AppMaster.io, G1 Software: AppMaster.io is a no-code platform to create and publish web and mobile applications with AI-generated source code.
Brady Forrest
Co-Founder and CEO of Ignite
Brady is Vice President at Highway1, PCH’s incubator program. A prolific speaker and maker on the geek scene, Brady can be found at speaking engagements around the world, inventing new forms of transportation at Burning Man, or creating in the Highway1 San Francisco workshop. Additionally, Brady writes for O’Reilly Radar, tracking changes in technology. Brady is the founder of Ignite, a geek event which has spread to over a hundred cities worldwide.
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About Highway1, Ignite: Ignite offers technical consulting, software outsourcing and testing, and ISO 9001 compliant software development services.
Hope Lewis
Co-Founder and CEO of MORE Health
MORE Health began with the dream of bringing the world’s best physicians and medical treatments to our close friends and family in other countries. This dream opened our eyes to the demand for cross-border medical consulting with the best doctors in the world. MORE Health can now offer you access to our dream by giving you the chance to experience top medical diagnosis, and the possibility of receiving the most technologically advanced medical treatment in the world through our network of top medical experts.
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About MORE Health: MORE Health delivers access to the best physicians in the world via its cloud-based medical collaboration platform.
Milovan Milic
Founder and CEO of Devtech
Self-made serial entrepreneur with a track record of building businesses in the technology space. Milovan began his IT career while still in high school in the early 2000s, deploying and maintaining infrastructure in internet cafes with a group of friends. Having dropped out of college, he has been involved in building startups in the Cloud & Hosting industry ever since. In 2008, Milovan co-founded ThinkGrid, a channel focused Cloud Computing vendor, which he helped build into a multi-million pound business. ThinkGrid was acquired by Colt Group in the summer of 2012. Milovan founded Devtech in late 2012 with the idea to help technology companies accelerate cloud enablement. Today, Devtech has a team of 150+ and it helps customers in over 20 countries and across 5 continents accelerate growth. In 2018, he co-founded Matter365 – a channel based vertical solution offering built around Microsoft Office 365 to help SMBs collaborate more effectively and focus on what really matters.
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About Devtech: Devtech is a Professional Services company focused on cloud enablement solutions for Telcos, CSPs, ISVs and MSPs.
John Keagy
Founder, Chairman, & CEO of GoGrid
John Keagy is the Founder at SErtified.org.
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About charterdart, GoGrid, SErtified: GoGrid is an IaaS provider offering public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions.
Matt Schwartz
Co-founder & CEO of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions
Matt Schwartz is the Co-founder & CEO of Virgo.
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About Virgo Surgical Video Solutions: Virgo accelerates clinical trials with AI for endoscopy
Kenfield Griffith
Co-Founder & CEO of AJUA
Kenfield Griffith is Co-Founder & CEO at mSurvey.
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About AJUA: Ajua captures and organizes customer experiences in Africa, to understand consumers to drive business growth, and give consumers options.
Yonas Beshawred
Founder & CEO of StackShare
Yonas studied Information Systems at University of Maryland. He then spent 18 months at Accenture’s IT Strategy Practice before quitting to study Human-Computer Interaction at University of Maryland for one year. Shortly after he moved to Mountain View, California to join Cube/SlidePay (YC W12) as a Marketing & Sales and iOS Design Grad Intern. He launched what is now StackShare, as Leanstack.io in May 2013 and has been working on it full-time ever since.
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About StackShare: StackShare is on a mission to connect every developer in the world with the right tools and the companies using them.
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
CEO & CO-Founder of Axalume
Develops silicon photonic integrated circuits that remove bandwidth, latency, and connectivity bottlenecks in datacenters. Axalume’s breakthrough optical switching photonic integrated circuits will enable datacenters to cost effectively scale.
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About Axalume: Axalume has developed proprietary technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits
Rajat Ghosh
Founder & CEO of AdeptDC
Rajat is the co-founder/CEO of AdeptDC, a startup with a mission of helping operators in keeping their services up and running. Before starting AdeptDC, Rajat was a doctoral student at Georgia Tech where his research focus was around building an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for data center cooling optimization. He attended IIT Kharagpur for his undergraduate in mechanical engineering. Fascinated by the beauty of numerical analyses since his high-school days, Rajat believes in the immerse power of analytics in solving intractable business problems. Through AdeptDC, he aspires to contribute a scientifically elegant solution to a high-impact business problem.
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About AdeptDC: AdeptDC offers autonomous time series analytics platform for microservices monitoring.
Philipp Popov
CEO of CloudCar
Philipp is a seasoned automotive industry expert. He was the Founder and CEO at S1NN GmbH (acquired by Harman International) and instrumental with in-car audio and connectivity, delivering a highly sophisticated infotainment systems to automotive customers; Audi, Bentley, Porsche and Tesla. Prior to joining CloudCar, Philipp also held Executive level positions in TradeBeam, Harman/Becker, and Bose. Philipp holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Technical University Berlin.
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About CloudCar: CloudCar has built a comprehensive platform delivering cloud-based solutions to OEMS.
John Mathon
CEO of Agile Stacks
John Mathon is the CEO at Agile Stacks.
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About Agile Stacks, CloudRamblings: Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning.
Yongzhi Yang
Founder, CEO of MoboTap
Yongzhi Yang is the founder and CEO of MoboTap Inc, the company behind Dolphin Browser. Under Yang’s leadership, Dolphin Browser achieved over 12 million downloads in less than 20 months. In 2010, MoboTap became Sequoia’s very first and only mobile browser investment. Prior to his work with Dolphin Browser, Yang was a software architect at Microsoft and led their mobile incubator effort.
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About ABC Fintech, Dolphin Browser, MoboTap: MoboTap is a mobile technology developer engaged in the development of mobile applications and services.
Nat Kausik
CEO of Bitglass
Nat was president and CEO of Bitglass from founding in Jan 2013 to retirement in June 2017. Prior to Bitglass, Nat was CEO of Asterpix, Trubates, FineGround and Arcot Systems, as well as positions in research and academia. Nat earned a B.Tech from IIT, Madras, an M.S. from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University.
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About Bitglass: Bitglass is an information technology company that helps enterprises move to SaaS-based and mobile deployments securely.
Matthew Gregory
Founder & CEO of Ockam
Matthew Gregory is the founder and CEO of Ockam and has a passion for building high performance teams. Matthew has a diverse background from Azure Open Source, Heroku, he built the Weather API that your favorite weather app probably uses, and is a former America’s Cup sailor.
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About Ockam: Ockam is how applications trust data-in-motion.
John Hartnett
CEO & Founder of SVG Ventures
Hartnett is a senior technology executive & investor based in Silicon Valley, California and a native of Limerick, Ireland. He is founder & CEO of SVG Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley Investment & Advisory firm. He is also founder and president of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), a network of global Irish technology leaders who’s main focus is to foster the links between Ireland and Silicon Valley in the areas of Innovation, Investment, Education & Entrepreneurship. Mr. Hartnett has over 25 years of executive level experience leading global sales, marketing, and operations. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer at G24 Innovations, a leading thin film solar company. He held the position of Senior Vice President of Global Markets at Palm, Inc., (Nasdaq: PALM), where he was responsible for worldwide sales, service and support. At Metacreations, (Nasdaq: MCRE), he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & Operations. He has also held senior management positions at Claris/Apple, Teradata, Digital Equipment (DEC) and Wang computers. Hartnett was recently appointed as independent non-executive director to the board of Aer Lingus, He also currently serves on the board of University of Limerick Foundation and as Executive Chairman of Daybreak Information Technologies, Chairman of Sisaf Ltd and director of Mcor Technologies. He served on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Northern Ireland Working Committee 2009 – 2011 and is currently leading the Global Diaspora innovation initiative with the US State Department. He is a member of the Irish Government’s Global Irish Network advisory group and the Global Irish Economic Forum. Hartnett is a graduate of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and holds a post-graduate diploma in Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has completed the executive management program at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
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About SVG Ventures: SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment firm that invests in early-stage ag-tech and food tech companies.
