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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 Infrastructure 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.
Qasar Younis
Co-Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition
Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.
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About Applied Intuition, Bosch, Cameesa.com, General Motors: Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
David McJannet
CEO of HashiCorp
Dave has more than 15 years of extensive experience across a range of product marketing, product management, and operational functions. Prior to joining Hortonworks, Dave led the product marketing team at VMware for a number of technologies including the Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service project and the vFabric product family. Previously, Dave served as Group Manager, Server & Tools at Microsoft where his team had responsibility for the product marketing and overall performance of the Server and Tools business in Canada. Before joining Microsoft he held product management roles at webMethods (now SoftwareAG) with a primary focus on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and middleware products. Dave began his career with KPMG and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from McGill University.
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About Delphix, HashiCorp, Hortonworks: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
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.
Dave Krauthamer
CEO of QuSecure
Dave Krauthamer is an Information systems executive who is an experienced CEO, CIO, CTO, CRO, CMO, CSO and serves as a Board Member and Chairman of the Digital Disruption Group at the Band of Angels. He has created and sold award-winning companies in addition to teaching university-level courses in information technology. Dave holds a degree in Computer Science. He loves working with people and is passionate about helping companies create incredible products, amazing brands, powerful marketing stories, and high-performance sales teams He has extensive experience in Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Product Innovation, Marketing, Sales, M&A, in addition to a wide background in the implementation of enterprise-wide systems. Dave currently serves as CEO of QuSecure and the founder of Quantum Thought. Quantum Thought is a premier quantum computing launchpad for the founding generation of quantum computing companies, as well as the generations to follow. The mission of Quantum Thought is to create, incubate, launch and guide amazing quantum companies and foundational technologies that will enable other companies to enter in a New Age. He is also the founder of NEURAL SALES an intelligent (AI) solution that evaluates all aspects of your market in real-time and learns from your interactions, successes, and setbacks. Prior to that, Dave created an award-winning company named Intelenex which became a leading partner in the transformation of Corporate Systems to the Cloud. Intelenex was recognized as Oracle’s Top Cloud ERP Sales Partner in 2015. Closing the year by selling almost 50% more Cloud ERP licenses than any other partner. Intelenex was also acknowledged as being one of the fastest-growing service companies in the country by Inc. Magazine ranking 364 out of the top 5000. The company was sold in July of 2015. He has managed the implementation of global networks and enterprise data architectures. He has taught university-level courses in Information Technology and has been a key industry contact for the Wall Street Journal, Computer World and PC Week. Dave Krauthamer holds a B.S. in Computer Science and has completed executive programs at Stanford and Cal Tech.
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About Band of Angels, Neural Edge, Quantum Thought, QuSecure: QuSecure is bringing vital quantum security and communication products that secure enterprise and government in the quantum computing era.
Grant Miller
Founder & CEO of Replicated
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About Replicated: Replicated provides a platform for delivering and managing Kubernetes applications in any environment.
Simon Parmett
CEO & GM at MuleSoft of MuleSoft
Simon Parmett is the CEO of MuleSoft. Previously Simon leads MuleSoft’s worldwide sales, services and channels organizations, responsible for the company’s growth and customer success. Simon comes to MuleSoft from Oracle where he was general manager of Oracle’s PLM Business Unit. At Oracle and previously Agile Software (acquired by Oracle) he was responsible for sales, business development, alliances and solution delivery for the Asia Pacific region. Simon holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO of Render
Founder and CEO at Render.
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About Render: Render provides a cloud for developers and startups to host all their apps and sites.
Charles Meyers
Chief Executive Officer & President of Equinix
Charles J. Meyers is the President and the Chief Executive officer at Equinix. He joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success teams. For the past year, he was President, Strategy, Services, and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering. Under Mr. Meyers’ leadership, SSI worked to optimize the company’s position as a cloud enabler, identify key growth areas, and evolve our services portfolio in response to market, competitive and technology trends. Mr. Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Meyers served as Group President at Verisign where he led a P&L portfolio including the company’s Security, Communications and Mobile Messaging businesses. Prior to Verisign, Mr. Meyers held various executive positions at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Global Marketing, President of IP and Data Services, and Senior Vice President, Softswitch Services. During his tenure, Mr. Meyers helped Level 3 emerge as a premier global provider of Internet and VoIP services.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Ferris
Sr. Vice President, Office of the CEO of Equinix
Pete Ferris serves in the Office of the CEO at Equinix. Peter has held several senior-level positions with Equinix since July 1999 and was appointed Sr. Vice President of Global Partner Programs and Strategic Customer Development in 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Sales Officer. From 2007 until 2010, Mr. Ferris served as President, Equinix U.S. where he was responsible for strategy and growth of the company’s operations throughout the region. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President of Sales for Equinix. Mr. Ferris has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Equinix, he held senior management positions at Frontier Global Center, Genuity and MFS Datanet. Mr. Ferris holds a degree in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Matt Galligan
Co-founder & CEO of XMTP
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About 1% of Nothing, XMTP: XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users.
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.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Ben Golub
Executive Chairman and Interim CEO of Storj
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About dotCloud, Storj: Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Sujai Hajela
Co-founder, President & CEO of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Chris MacAskill
CEO of Cake
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About Cake: Operates in the technology industry.
Steven J. Demetriou
President & Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs
Steve Demetriou is the Financial Controller at Inventis Ltd.
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About Inventis, Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Soumyadeb Mitra
Founder & CEO of RudderStack
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About RudderStack: RudderStack provides a customer data infrastructure solution for developers, data analysts, and product teams.
Catheryne Nicholson
Co-Founder & CEO of BlockCypher
As co-founder and CEO of BlockCypher, Catheryne has decades of experience in software product management, product marketing, environmental & energy, and defense. Catheryne is an engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. She has built large-scale commercial software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for companies such as BlockCypher, MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. She graduated from the U.S Naval Academy and Stanford University and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MS in Environmental Engineering, a MBA, and is a registered PE in Mechanical Engineering.
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About BlockCypher: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Bassem Hamdy
CEO & Co-Founder of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Torben Friehe
CEO of Wingback
Torben Friehe is Co-founder & CEO of Wingback.
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About Wingback: Wingback provides tools and APIs for SaaS pricing and packaging.
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO of BigPanda
Assaf Resnick is CEO and founder of BigPanda, a data science platform for automating IT event correlation. BigPanda brings order to the alert chaos of large and fragmented IT Operations environments. Prior to founding BigPanda, Assaf was an investor with Sequoia Capital from 2005-2011. He lives in California with his wife and two beautiful kids.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Daniel Neukomm
Chairman & CEO of La Jolla Group
Daniel Neukomm is CEO of La Jolla Group, a $500M retail manufacturer and marketer. La Jolla Group is the parent company of and/or operating partner to active lifestyle apparel brands including O’Neill, Spiritual Gangster, Hang Ten, PSD, and others. Daniel is also a co-founder of Revelstone Capital, a consumer growth equity fund. Daniel is a board director of The Parent Co, (OTC: GRAMF), the largest cannabis company in California where he was a founding investor and operating partner. Daniel has been an entrepreneur and has an MBA from International School of Management (ISM) – Paris, and an undergrad from University of Vermont. D
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About La Jolla Group, O’Neill, Revelstone Capital: La Jolla Group is the world’s premier multi-brand apparel licensing company, with a portfolio of prominent.
Chuck Robbins
Chairman & CEO of Cisco
As CEO, Robbins leads an Executive Leadership Team focused on Ciscos vision to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. Under his leadership, Cisco is empowering its customers to create and deliver value as every country, city and company becomes digital. In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Cisco, Robbins led the company’s Worldwide Sales and Partner Organizations, and helped drive and execute many of the companys investment areas and strategy shifts. He also sponsored the security and collaboration businesses at the executive level and was a key champion for the Sourcefire and Meraki acquisitions.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Pouria Sanae
Founder & CEO of ixlayer
Pouria Sanae is the Founder and CEO of ixLayer.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
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.
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
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.
Yvonne Wassenaar
CEO of Puppet
Yvonne Wassenaar is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture. She is currently a board member of Forrester (FORR) and Harvey Mudd College. Amidst growing concerns with how modern technology could be used, Yvonne is championing it to drive a safer, more efficient and innovative planet.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
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.
Balaji Parimi
Founder & CEO of CloudKnox Security
Balaji Parimi is Founder and CEO of CloudKnox Security, a Cloud Security company that empowers organizations to manage identity privileges across private and public cloud infrastructure. Prior to founding CloudKnox, Balaji was VP of Engineering and Operations at CloudPhysics, Staff Engineer at VMware, Architect and Technical Lead at 8X8, and Senior Software Engineer at Quality Call Solutions.
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
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.
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
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.
Moti Rafalin
CEO, Founder and Chairman of vFunction
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About vFunction: VFunction allows enterprises to tackle application modernization and accelerate digital transformation.
Sara Spangelo
CEO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Sara Spangelo is the co-founder and CEO of Swarm, the company that is developing the world’s lowest-cost global communications network with breakthrough satellite technology and ground hardware for customers in remote locations. Before starting Swarm, Sara worked on small satellites and autonomous aircraft at the University of Michigan and was a lead systems engineer at both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Google X. Her expertise is in modeling and optimizing satellite constellations to maximize impact and business opportunities. Sara holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and in 2017 was a Top 32 Canadian astronaut candidate.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Ev Kontsevoy
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport
Ev Kontsevoy is the CEO & Founder at Gravitational.
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Zachary Rosen
Co-Founder & CEO of Pantheon
Zack Rosen is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pantheon.
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About California YIMBY, Chapter Three., Covid Act Now, Mission Bicycle Company, Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Yoshinori Yamashita
President and CEO of Ricoh Company
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Kristen Dumont
CEO of Machine Zone
Kristen became CEO of MZ in June 2018 after serving as the company’s Chief Operating Officer since 2015. As COO, Kristen was responsible for MZ’s worldwide strategy and operations, overseeing the company’s unprecedented growth into a gaming powerhouse with three of the mobile gaming industry’s all-time top performers: Game of War, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy. Kristen led the company’s efforts to hire and develop the most talented engineers, developers, and creative talent in the industry, and to cultivate international partnerships and success in foreign markets. Dumont is also the first and only woman CEO of a major gaming company, one of two women CEOs among PitchBook’s 30 most valuable private companies, and one of only a handful of Latina CEOs in Silicon Valley. She is a sought-after speaker on a range of technology and business issues, having been a featured speaker and panelist at conferences including Collision and Web Summit. Before joining the company, Dumont was a strategic advisor to MZ and its founder for two years, helping the company transition from start-up phase to a maturity as a global company, and building a solid foundation for growth. Ms. Dumont was born and raised in Northern California and earned her BA at the University of California at Berkeley. She serves as an advisor to Silicon Valley venture capital firm 8VC, and she served a five-year term as a Board Member of the Sky’s The Limit Fund, which provides grants to support at-risk youth to attend wilderness rehab programs. Dumont lives in the Silicon Valley with her husband and four children.
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About Machine Zone: Machine Zone develops applications and games for users of social networks and mobile devices.
Melissa Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zipline
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About Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Mark Levitt
Co-Founder and CEO of Trixta
Four-time SA Open chess champion, with many years history in Chess commerce, including: publishing, software and retail business. Levitt was also an early investor & CIO of search engine marketing company www.incubeta.com, and a founding member of TEIM Ventures.
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About ChessCube.com, Trixta, Trixta: Trixta’s low-code tools revolutionize how teams build software – faster, better, with fewer developers
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.
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
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
Christian Selchau-Hansen
CEO & Co-Founder of Formation
CEO / Co-Founder at Formation
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About Formation, The Bay Citizen: Formation distills customer data into uniquely tailored experiences; we orchestrate physical & digital exchanges into one seamless journey.
Brian Barlow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Brian D. Barlow is a Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (“SIP”).
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About Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners: Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners applies innovative technology to urban infrastructure systems.
Dan L. Batrack
Chairman, CEO, President of Tetra Tech
Batrack joined our predecessor in 1980 and was named Chairman in January 2008. He has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a director since November 2005 and as our President since October 2008. Batrack has served in numerous capacities over the last 30 years, including project scientist, project manager, operations manager, senior vice president, and president of an operating unit. He has managed complex programs for many small and Fortune 500 clients, both in the United States and internationally. Batrack holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington.
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About American Environmental Group, Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech provides innovative solutions focused on water, the environment and energy for the government and commercial clients.
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.
Cem Koc
Founder & CEO of Ronotic
Entrepeneur since 2000. Cem has developed business strategies for the efficient and effective use of technology and always has an eye on emerging technologies and trends. Cem tends to be an outgoing thinker and naturally has an easy time persuading others. Confident and decisive, Cem is likely to take bold action and articulate ideas to build momentum around the projects that his pursues.
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About Ronotic: Solar Powered Streetlights, CleanTech Infrastructure
Maha Achour
Founder & CEO of Metawave
CEO and Founder of Metawave, Maha is senior leader with more than 20 years’ experience in both public and entrepreneurial start-up companies in the RF, wireless, optics and networking industries. Demonstrated track record of: developing an idea from concept to product, delivering industry leading technologies, building teams and companies. Strong technology background combined with leadership, business and marketing skills. Previously, Maha served as co-founder and CTO of Rayspan, where she commercialized the first Metamaterial antennas and RF front-end subsystems for the cell-phone and WLAN industries. She has also pioneered the first broadcast HDTV system over satellite, mm-wave/Free-Space Optical systems for last mile connectivity, and led various DARPA projects in wireless MIMO and Optical devices.
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About Metawave, Polyceed Inc.: Metawave is a wireless technology company that builds intelligent and high-performance automotive radars by leveraging metamaterials and AI.
Satish Bagalkotkar
Chairman & CEO & Co-Founder of Synapse
Satish is Chairman/CEO and Co-founder of Synapse Design. With more than 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry, and the past 10 years guiding Synapse Design, Satish has developed a broad knowledge of the latest trends and challenges facing top tier technology companies. He has built an organization that is focused on creating high-end products in the storage, mobile, networking, cloud, IoT and multimedia space for most of the largest system and semiconductor companies in the world. Satish has spearheaded Synapse Design success through a focus on competency, technology and innovation in the biggest growth areas in the industry. He is also co-sponsoring several initiatives to help lead the development of cloud appliances for big data; biometrics including a focus on iris recognition for authentication and home automation; and a single platform for IoT space.
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About Synapse: Synapse is an industry leader in design services and is the engineering backbone of most top tier Semiconductor and System companies.
Chase Perkins
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
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About Impervious.ai, Thoughtly: Impervious is building Layer 3 of Bitcoin via IMP API – A programmatic layer for developing censorship-resistant, P2P streaming services.
Rohit Seth
CEO and Founder of CloudNatix
Rohit Seth is an ex-Google executive and Founder of CloudNatix Inc.
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About CloudNatix: CloudNatix is a provider of efficient infrastructure across multiple clouds and on-premise environments.
Ross Bott
President & CEO of SEVEN Networks
Bott has been President and CEO of SEVEN Networks since 2006, and has been a member of SEVEN’s board of directors since 2002. Previously, he served as COO of Phone.com (now Openwave Systems), providing infrastructure and application software for wireless carriers and handset OEMs, and as CEO of Onebox.com (San Mateo, California), a leading provider of Web–based communications services, which was acquired by Phone.com in 2001. Bott joined Onebox.com from Adobe Systems, where he was Executive Vice President, Product Divisions. Prior to Adobe, Bott was at Silicon Graphics (Mountain View, California), where he was last Senior Vice President of Enterprise Technologies. Before joining Silicon Graphics, Bott worked at Pyramid Technology Corporation, last as Chief Technology Officer. Bott holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Bott has also spent several years in venture capital, where he worked as a partner in Redpoint Ventures (Silicon Valley), Brainheart Capital (Sweden), and Vision Capital (transatlantic), and holds a patent in data mining.
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About SEVEN Networks: SEVEN Networks Open Channel® software solutions deliver device-centric mobile traffic management and analytics for wireless carriers.
Kirk Hawkins
Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft
Kirk Hawkins is the Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft.
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About ICON Aircraft: ICON Aircraft manufactures consumer-friendly, safe, technologically advanced aircrafts.
Arun Agarwal
Co-founder, CEO of Infinio
Co-Founder & CEO. Originally a midwest native, Arun has since lived in Cambridge within the same 1.5 mile radius for almost 11 years — including both college and graduate school. Arun has been interested in technology startups since he started his first company in high school (a complete failure), three more in college, and finally through his stint as a senior manager at Endeca Technologies and as a venture capitalist with several of Infinio’s investors. When he’s not at the office, Arun likes to spend time with his lovely wife Arushi, and attempting to avoid ice patches while skiing in Vermont & Maine.
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About Infinio: Infinio provides downloadable storage performance solutions for virtual environments.
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.
Grace Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Common Networks
Grace is the CPO and co-founder of Common Networks. She was previously at Square, where she was the Director of Product on the flagship Square Register product and managed a team of 70+ engineers, product managers, and designers. She alo led teams responsible for the launches of Square Japan and Australia, Square Invoices, new Square card readers, Instant Deposits, and numerous retail, restaurants & services features.Before Square, Grace was at Google PMing the Offers product and working on Sales Strategy and Operations. She started her career as a Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Grace has a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Brett Galloway
Founder &CEO of Xova Labs
Brett Galloway is the CEO at AttackIQ.
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About AttackIQ, Xova Labs: Xova Labs enable companies leveraging the mobile and cloud technology disruptions.
Vishal Gupta
CEO of Seclore
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About Seclore: Seclore provides enterprise digital rights management solution that enables organizations to control the usage of files wherever they go.
Pooja Shah
Co-Founder, CEO of KidzToPros
Pooja drives KidzToPros strategic vision and manages all business interactions. Before KidzToPros she was involved with several Silicon Valley giants launching mobile phones and security apps, including: Apple, Google, Facebook, and Symantec. Turning strategy into action when it comes to work or at home is what drives Pooja day in day out. Networking, technology, ability to look beyond hurdles and creating opportunity for the future is the part that Pooja drives at KidzToPros.
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About KidzToPros: KidzToPros is a provider and marketplace for after school enrichment programs.
Tim Prendergast
CEO of strongDM
Tim co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he felt when helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. After years of building, operating, and securing services in AWS, he set out to make security approachable and repeatable for companies of all sizes. Tim led technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee.
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About strongDM: strongDM manages and audits access to infrastructure.
Thomas Isakovich
CEO & Founder of Nimbus Data
Entrepreneur specializing in next-generation enterprise and datacenter infrastructure, particularly network storage, software, and compute platforms. Specialties: Startup creation, technical vision, software/hardware engineering, product and corporate marketing, major account development, and supply-chain operations. Thomas earned a B.A. with Honors from Stanford University.
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About Nimbus Data: Nimbus Data develops advanced flash memory solutions that power data-driven innovation.
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.
Bill Brennan
CEO & President of Credo Semiconductor
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
David Hughes
CEO & Founder of Silver Peak
David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc. Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Amit Pandey
CEO of Avi Networks
Amit is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of leading high-growth and highly innovative organizations. Before joining Avi Networks, he was the CEO of Zenprise which emerged as a market leader in the Enterprise Mobility Management Market and was acquired by Citrix. Prior to Zenprise, Amit served as CEO at TerraCotta, Inc. and helped establish it as the dominant player in the distributed caching space. Terracotta was acquired by the European software giant, Software AG. Before TerraCotta, Amit spent nearly a decade at NetApp in a wide range of executive positions. Amit also worked at McKinsey & Company, focusing on strategy development for high-tech companies. Amit holds Master of Business Administration and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University.
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About Avi Networks: Avi Networks drives automation and intelligence across multi-cloud environments with intent-based application services.
George Gallegos
CEO of Jitterbit
George Gallegos is the CEO at Jitterbit.
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About Jitterbit: Jitterbit is an API transformation company helping businesses to exploit data from any source.
Dan Wendlandt
Co-Founder & CEO of Isovalent
Dan Wendlandt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Isovalent.
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About Isovalent: Isovalent builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure
Klaus Badelt
Founder & CEO of Filmhub
Klaus Badelt is the Founder at Filmhub.
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About Copy-Kids, Filmhub, Wunderhorn Music: Filmhub is a the #1 distribution platform for Filmmakers and Streaming Channels.
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.
John De Santis
Chairman & CEO of HyTrust
John De Santis is the CEO & Board Chairman of HyTrust Inc. He has operated at the bleeding edge of innovation and business transformation for over 30 years – with international and US based experience at venture-backed technology start-ups as well as large global public companies. Most recently, Mr. De Santis was VP, Cloud Services for VMware. He joined VMware after being Chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company acquired by VMware in 2010. He led TriCipher’s transformation from a specialized niche provider of secure authentication solutions to the leading innovator in cloud based identity services for web application and SaaS access management. Convergys Corporation) where he was Vice President, European Operations, responsible for delivering operational support systems and business process re-engineering to newly deregulated European telecommunication service providers. When he was 28 years old, he co-founded an optical fiber networking start up which built the first commercial application of optical channel networking for IBM mainframes. Prior to TriCipher, Mr. De Santis served as CEO of enterprise security software company, Sygate Technologies, from 2000 until its acquisition by Symantec in 2005. Sygate’s innovations continue to provide the foundational technology for Symantec’s Endpoint Protection business. Prior to joining Sygate, he was SVP for Network Computing Devices (a leading thin client manufacturer), where he was responsible for all Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Service operations. Prior to NCD, he was with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Mr. De Santis earned an AB in Philosophy from Fairfield University and completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program for Management of High-Tech Companies. De Santis is currently on the Board of Neohapsis, the premier provider of security, governance, risk and compliance services to highly regulated enterprises and government agencies. Previously, he was on the Boards of Tablus (data leakage protection software – acquired by RSA), Applied Identity (identity based access control software – acquired by Citrix).
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About HyTrust: HyTrust specializes in security, compliance and control software for private, hybrid and public cloud infrastructure.
Zac Choi
Co-Founder & CEO of String
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About String: String is a software company that offers a cloud-based direct phone line and messaging solution for business texting and calling.
Jack Naglieri
CEO, Founder of Panther Labs
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software. His exposure in security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb, and open sourced a framework that enables real-time data analysis and alerting at scale called StreamAlert. He managed a team of engineers further developing detection and response infrastructure at Airbnb. Now, he has left to start his own company, Panther Labs, to help companies stay secure in the cloud-first world.
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About Panther Labs: Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Khaled Hassounah
CEO & Founder of Ample
A visionary technologist, Khaled has recruited and built technical teams across multiple early-stage startups and managed them through rapid growth to deliver successful and innovative products. Khaled has proven experience in building and deploying scalable software that has been used and continues to be used by tens of millions of enterprise and online users across multiple verticals. He has also set up and managed teams across India, China and the Middle East. Prior to MedHelp, he was a founding member of IMlogic, an instant messaging security software company acquired by Symantec, where he built the tech team and managed the delivery of three successful product offerings. Khaled was also the a founding member of One World Software Solutions, a technical consulting company that grew to span three continents, and was part of the NetDocs team at Microsoft. Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.
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About Ample, MedHelp, NetDocs: Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation.
Joel Andren
Co-Founder, CEO of PressFriendly
Joel Andren grew up wanting to be a reporter for the New York Times and was editor of his college newspaper. He was finally dissuaded from being a reporter by writing more than 100 obituaries during a stint as a summer intern at the Times-Herald in Norristown, PA. After receiving an MA in Communication with a PR focus, Joel worked at the third-largest PR firm in Seattle. Joel has worked at numerous early-stage startups and was a co-founder at Bitcasa. Most recently, Joel was Head of Marketing for YCombinator company HelloSign, where he worked with his current co-founder, Paul Denya.
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About PressFriendly, Protypical: PressFriendly is a startup intent on helping other startups get press.
Tim Dyson
CEO of Next Fifteen Communications Group
Tim joined the Group in 1984 straight from Loughborough University and became its global CEO in 1992. As one of the early pioneers of tech PR, he has worked on major corporate and product campaigns with such companies as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Intel. Tim oversaw the flotation of the Company on the London Stock Exchange and has managed a string of successful acquisitions by the Group including Elvis, Velocity, Publitek, The OutCast Agency, M Booth and The Blueshirt Group in the US as well as, Morar in the UK. Tim moved from London to set up the Group’s first US business in 1995 in Seattle and is now based in Palo Alto. Outside Next 15, Tim has served on advisory boards of a number of emerging technology companies. Tim has been named an Emerging Power Player by PR Week US. In 2013, Tim was recognised on the Holmes Report’s In2’s Innovator 25, which recognises individuals who have contributed ideas that set the bar for the industry. He was also recently named in PR Week’s Power Book.
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About Next Fifteen Communications Group: Next Fifteen Communications Group is the digital communications group.
Ed Zitron
Founder & CEO of EZPR
Ed Zitron is the founder of EZPR, a West-Coast media relations firm focusing on consumer tech startups. He has been published by Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Eurogamer, PC Gamer and PC Zone. He is the author of ‘This Is How You Pitch: How To Kick Ass In Your First Years In PR’ and was recently named “Top 50 People in Tech PR” by Business Insider.
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About EZPR: EZPR is a results-focused media relations firm in New York and San Francisco.
Tenry Fu
CEO & Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud
Tenry Fu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spectro Cloud. He is a Serial entrepreneur focused on solving problems in enterprise IT. Deep domain knowledge in Kubernetes, cloud computing, virtualization, scalable distributed systems, enterprise system management, and security. 16+ patents in distributed systems, system management, automation, and security.
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About Spectro Cloud: A complete and integrated full lifecycle management platform for any combination of Kubernetes in any environment.
Toufi Saliba
CEO of Toda.Network
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About DAIA, PrivacyShell Corp, Toda.Network: Toda.Network is a developer of a blockchain platform designed to provide online transaction systems.
Michael Tso
CEO & Co-Founder of Cloudian
Michael Tso is co-cofounder and CEO of Cloudian. Prior to Cloudian, he co-founded and led Gemini Mobile Technologies, a pioneer in wireless messaging, providing mission-critical infrastructure software that today powers services at some of the world’s largest telcos. At search engine pioneer Inktomi, Michael led engineering for an e-commerce search engine, and designed a network congestion control system for KDDI which later became an industry standard. At Intel, he led the development of web acceleration technology and collaborated with Nokia on NarrowBand Sockets, commonly known as SmartMessaging, which enabled the world’s first SMS ringtone download service. Michael holds 36 patents. He graduated from MIT with an MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in Economics.
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About Cloudian: Cloudian is a file and object storage company specializing in S3 object storage in the data center.
Ron Victor
CEO and Founder of IoTium
Ron Victor is a Silicon-Valley based entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and expertise in both Fortune 100 companies and launching new ventures and start-ups. To-date, he has enabled raising more than $30 million in capital for multiple start-ups. He has founded and led three companies to successful exits. His latest venture, IoTium Inc., provides a secure, cloud-managed, easy-to-deploy Networking as a Service infrastructure for all IoT verticals. IoTium is the first secure network infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), allowing mission-critical environments to safely realize the promise of Industry 4.0. Prior to IoTium, Ron served as VP of Marketing and Business Development of Wireless Industrial Technologies, an Industrial IoT company providing IoT solutions for heavy industry such as aluminum smelters, copper tank houses, and more.
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About IoTium: IoTium simplifies establishing and managing secure network infrastructure for Industrial IoT.
Alan J Armstrong
CEO of CNEX Labs
Alan Armstrong is CEO at CNEX LABS.
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About CNEX Labs: CNEX provides revolutionary solid-state storage semiconductor and software solutions for cloud, hyper-scale, and enterprise data centers.
Zhenwu Shi
Founder & CEO of InfStones
Zhenwu Shi is the Founder and CEO of InfStones.
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About InfStones: InfStones provides decentralized blockchain infrastructure service on one integrated platform.
Bud Broomhead
CEO, Founder of Viakoo
Bud Broomhead brings to Viakoo, Inc. two decades of executive experience in the technology sector, leading innovative teams at Sun Microsystems and for privately-held startups in challenging CEO, COO, and GM roles in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Broomhead is a frequent presenter and panelist at security and technology events and conferences in both the U.S. and international venues, called upon for his expertise and knowledge of the industry and trends. Mr. Broomhead is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with a degree in Earth Sciences.
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About Viakoo: Vulnerability management for unmanaged & IoT Devices; firmware patching, certificate management, password enforcement, and service assurance
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
João Barros
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veniam
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About Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Streambolico, Veniam: Veniam is a technology firm that is advancing mobility’s future by enabling the Internet of Moving Things.
Domas Povilauskas
Co-Founder and CEO of Syntropy
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About Syntropy: Syntropy is transforming the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet through a unifying layer.
Philippe Vincent
President & CEO of Virtual Instruments
Philippe Vincent brings over 20 years of experience in technology industries. Philippe held senior executive positions with BigFix, IBM and Accenture. During his tenure at BigFix, he led several business functions and drove strategy and operations across the company. He helped drive BigFix to a leadership position in the Systems and Security Management markets, and a successful sale to IBM in 2010. At IBM, Philippe helped lead the integration of BigFix into the Tivoli business unit. Before BigFix, he was a Partner with Accenture’s High Tech strategy practice, and a leader of its Software practice. Philippe began his career with engineering positions at Alcatel and PSA Peugeot Citroen. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM (France).
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About Virtual Instruments: Virtual Instruments offers IT infrastructure performance management solutions for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
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.
Chase Gonzales
CEO of Monarch
Chase Gonzales currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of Monarch.
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About Monarch: Monarch is a provider of cloud-based business solutions and GPS technology for equipment and vehicles.
Sam Nagar
Co-founder & CEO of Pixeom
Sam Nagar has led the company and its solutions to become the market-leading Edge computing software platform, both by number of deployments and revenue. A visionary entrepreneur and technologist, throughout his career Sam has focused on key growth areas including Edge computing, cloud, IoT, operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing and is now the youngest CEO in the Edge computing world.
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About Pixeom: Pixeom is the market leading software-defined edge computing platform.
Sam Nagar
Co-founder & CEO of Pixeom
Sam Nagar has led the company and its solutions to become the market-leading Edge computing software platform, both by number of deployments and revenue. A visionary entrepreneur and technologist, throughout his career Sam has focused on key growth areas including Edge computing, cloud, IoT, operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing and is now the youngest CEO in the Edge computing world.
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