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 CTO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
GEORGE NG
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of GGWP
George Ng joined GGWP as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer.
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About GGWP: GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.
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Bryan McCann
CTO and Co-Founder of you.com
Bryan McCann is a Co-Founder and CTO of You.com.
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About you.com: You.com is a search engine that helps users find what they’re looking for by prioritizing real results.
Brien Colwell
CTO & Co-Founder of HeadSpin
Brien previously founded YC-backed Nextop. He worked on mobile architecture at Quora and started and led the Android team through many international launches. He was also an early engineer at Palantir and a lead engineer at a number of data and mobile startups.
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
Larry Ellison
Chief Technology Officer of Oracle
Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and served as CEO until September 2014. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.
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About Lawrence Investments, Oracle, Oracle Corporation Japan, Tako Ventures: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Devon Townsend
Co-Founder & CTO of Cameo
Devon Townsend is a co-founder and CTO at Cameo.
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About Cameo: Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.
David Bill
CTO of Freestyle
David Bill is the CTO at Freestyle Capital.
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About Burning Man Project, First Round Capital, Freestyle: Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.
Arie Trouw
CEO & CTO & Founder of XYO
Ten years before Elon Musk wrote his first line of computer code, another young prodigy from South Africa was busy writing software on his TRS-80 Model I. In 1978, at the age of 10, Arie Trouw started developing software on the TRS-80 Model I, moving on to Atari, Apple, and PC. He then ran a series of bulletin boards centering on game-theory modification. Arie is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with a rich history of technological breakthroughs and business successes involving multiple 8-figure exit events. He is a strong believer in decentralization and the creation of the integrated owner/user model. Arie founded XY in 2012 (incorporated as Ength Degree, LLC before it was converted to a C Corporation in 2016). He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to starting XY-The Findables Company, Arie was CEO and Chairman of Pike Holdings Inc and Chief Technology Officer of Tight Line Technologies LLC. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Fun Fact: He is a member of one of the first Afrikaans speaking families to emigrate to the US from South Africa in 1976.
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About XY Labs, XY – The Persistent Company, XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Adam Perry-Pelletier
Co-founder & CTO of Housecall Pro
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About Housecall Pro: Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Lincoln Wallen
CTO of Improbable
Lincoln is chief technology officer for DreamWorks Animation, the global family entertainment company, a position he has held since 2012, having joined the company as head of research and development in 2008. Prior to this, Lincoln served as chief technology officer for the mobile business of Electronic Arts, Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software company. He has held senior positions at Criterion Software, MathEngine plc and is a non-executive director of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics & System Engineering. Lincoln is also an advisory board member of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a member of the STEM Advisory Committee of the National Academy foundation. Lincoln was formerly a lecturer and reader in computation at the University of Oxford.
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About Caltech, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Roopak Gupta
Chief Technology Officer of Eskalera
Roopak Gupta is an industry veteran of 20+ years who has built innovative, highly scalable and best-in-class Big data and Machine learning technologies at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals. Before Eskalera, Roopak was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and VP of Applications and Data at Krux, where he led the team responsible for the development and delivery of all of Krux’s products. Prior to that, Roopak led inventory management and price optimization engineering teams at Microsoft, having joined via Rapt acquisition. Roopak has a Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a minor in Management.
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About Eskalera: Eskalera improves employee engagement, productivity, and growth to help large and medium-sized companies transform their HR operations.
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Balachandran Rajendran
CTO, EDA of Dell EMC
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Paul Warren
CTO, Cloud Platform Team of Dell EMC
Paul is the CTO of Dell EMC’s Cloud Platform Team. With over 20 years experience in the software industry most of which has been spent working on APIs, frameworks and tooling for Developers. He is a proponent of Cloud Foundry and Spring and an advocate for open source software in general. He is the creator of the open source libraries Spring Content and Ginkgo4j (for test-driven development). He is a committer on several CloudFoundry projects including UAA and Volume Services and helped design the Cloud Foundry Certification program. He is also a member of the Container Storage Interface working group helping to design the interface for storage for the Cloud.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Brett Goldsmith
Chief Technology Officer of Cardea Bio
A founding member of Nanomed and the company’s CTO, Dr. Goldsmith’s passion is taking nanoelectronic technology out of the theoretical realm to create practical and manufacturable products that better people’s lives. One of the few people in the world with the combined expertise in biology and nanotechnology needed to develop graphene as a viable bio-electronic device, Dr. Goldsmith was the lead researcher on landmark academic papers in Science and Nature Nanotechnology demonstrating the coupling of biochemical systems to carbon nanotubes, for which he won the Nottingham Prize from the Physics Electronics Conference. Following graduate school at UC Irvine, Dr. Goldsmith joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Intelligence Community Fellow and led a project developing nanoelectronic sensing of Lyme biomarkers as well as successfully integrated membrane proteins with nanoelectronic circuits. Leaving his post-doc position to start a nanotechnology group at the Navy’s San Diego laboratory, Dr. Goldsmith identified technological needs in the field and advanced nanotechnology solutions to those needs through partnership with programs including Living Foundries and IVN Dx. Prior to founding Nanomed, Dr. Goldsmith was the CTO of Nanosense in Mountain View where he developed and drove the first successful fabrication of a nanoelectronic sensing system in the chemical manufacturing industry in the form of commercial industrial gas sensors. Dr. Goldsmith brings proven experience in transforming academic learnings into viable commercial fabrications to his role as CTO of Nanomed.
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About Cardea Bio, Nanomed: Cardea is developing a new generation of (bio)technology infrastructure based on proprietary biology-gated transistors.
Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Hsieh
IT CTO of VMware
Jason Hsieh is the IT CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Marc Fleischmann
CTO of VMware
Marc Fleischmann is the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simon Kofkin-Hansen
CTO, IBM Cloud of VMware
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About IBM, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christos Karamanolis
Fellow, CTO Storage & Availability of VMware
Christos Karamanolis joined VMware in 2005. He was appointed as a VMware Fellow in 2016 for his overall contributions to storage virtualization. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of the Storage and Availability Business Unit where he is in charge of strategy and technical product roadmap. Christos was one of the original vSAN architects who envisioned and developed the product, currently the fastest growing business in VMware’s product portfolio. He is still actively involved in the architecture and development of the product. During his tenure with VMware, he has worked on the ESXi storage stack and led a number of projects including VMware’s vSphere Replication, Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. He also works with strategic industry partners to architect storage and data protection features and APIs that enable a rich product ecosystem for VMware customers.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Steve Tilkens
Staff Technical Account Manager, Lead & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Steve Tilkens serves as a staff technical account manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Darin Van Pelt
CTO of ABL Space Systems
Darin Van Pelt is the CTO at ABL Space Systems.
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About ABL Space Systems: ABL Space Systems specializes in building rockets to launch satellites.
Dave Pickles
CTO of The Trade Desk
As Chief Technology Officer and founder, Dave Pickles oversees all engineering and technology at The Trade Desk. Pickles has spent his entire career building real-time Internet delivery systems. At the internet telephony startup CallWave, Inc, he was involved in building all back end components of the system: client session management services, telephone call handling services, customer registration services, B2B integrations with all major telephone carriers, and complex high performance database systems (including a custom billing and CRM system) In 2007, Pickles joined AdECN, Microsoft’s recent exchange acquisition at the time. He wrote code and led a team that in under seven months built the complete Federated Exchange, enabling real-time bidding. After release, Microsoft publishing assets slowly ramped production traffic while hardening the system, handling performance testing of 30B daily impressions. With the exchange complete and ready for prime time, Pickles left to help found The Trade Desk and build its platform.
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About The Trade Desk, Trade Desk Inc.: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Matthias Kadenbach
CTO & Co-founder of Templarbit
CTO & Co-founder at Templarbit Inc.
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About Templarbit: Templarbit protects applications from malicious activity.
Puneet Agarwal
Co-founder and CTO of Innovium
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About Innovium: Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Bryan Martin
CTO of 8×8
Bryan R. Martin is Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at 8×8. With over two decades of service to the Company, including 11 years as Chief Executive Officer, Martin has been a key figure in 8×8’s growth, leading the company from its early days as a VoIP pioneer to becoming the leading provider of Unified Communications as a Service solutions. Prior to being named CEO in 2002, he held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations. He has been a member of 8×8’s Board of Directors since 2001 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2003. Martin holds 44 United States Patents in the fields of semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications. In November 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Broadband Task Force for the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and he later served as Chair of the task force’s Emerging Technologies and New Applications Working Group. In 2006, he was named one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” by Internet Telephony magazine. In addition to his technical knowledge and expertise, Martin is well versed in industry and business affairs and has spoken before numerous trade, financial and regulatory organizations including the FCC, California Public Utilities Commission, California State Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee, IEEE, National Emergency Number Association, Association of Police Communication Officials, TechNet, Supercomm, VON, United States Telecom Association and NGN. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi and received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Mukund Balasubramanian
Chief Technology Officer of Photon
Mukund Balasubramanian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Photon. His strategic technology agenda is the driving force for mobile presences developed by over 25% of the Fortune100 companies. As a trusted technology advisor, CIOs seek his advice on technology direction, design and architecture of enterprise-class mobile and digital presences. Mukund oversees and guides one of the largest pool (over 1500) of trained digital and mobile consultants in the world. He was previously the Vice President of Product development at webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which acquired Infravio for $40mn, where he was the founder and CTO. Infravio was the leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) registry and governance company. He has served as an active member and adviser to several standards organizations such as XML schema, W3C Web services architecture and Open Source web services. Mukund has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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About Photon: Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.
Tom Harel
CTO and Co-Founder of Routable
Tom Harel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Routable.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
Paulo Marques
Founding Partner and CTO of Feedzai
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Feedzai, Forbes Technology Council: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Deepak Gupta
Co-founder, CTO/CISO & Board Member of LoginRadius
Co-founder/CTO @LoginRadius, Securing 1B+ IDs worldwide. CyberSecurity innovator and author. Developer at heart. Infrastructure Architect.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Nadir Izrael
Co-Founder and CTO of Armis Security
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically in unit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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About Armis Security, Cyberstarts: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Dhruba Borthakur
Co-Founder & CTO of Rockset
Dhruba Borthakur is CTO and co-founder of Rockset, responsible for the company’s technical direction. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System. He was also a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba previously held various roles at Veritas Software, founded an e-commerce startup, Oreceipt.com, and contributed to Andrew File System (AFS) at IBM-Transarc Labs.
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About Rockset: Rockset is a computer software company that offers a cloud data infrastructure.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Medha Parlikar
CTO and Co-Founder of CasperLabs
Medha Parlikar is co-founder and chief technology officer of CasperLabs. Medha has more than 30 years of tech experience and is considered one of the top women in blockchain.
As CasperLabs CTO, Medha is on a mission to make blockchain the platform for doing business in the future. “It’s not a scary technology,” says Medha. “We are de-risking the blockchain for the enterprise. The time is now for businesses to adopt and not be left behind.” Medha began working with blockchain in 2017 as a program manager with Pyrofex, where she managed the development of an open-source blockchain platform.
When she realized the blockchain technology platform she needed didn’t actually exist, she decided to build it herself and CasperLabs was born. Beyond blockchain, Medha’s specialties includes Ethereum, SaaS, Product Engineering, and Cloud technologies.
Medha started working with technology in the early 1980’s, building computers in the basement. For the past two decades, she has been delivering production SaaS software for large companies including Adobe, Omniture and Avalara.
Medha excels in building and guiding high-functioning technical teams, inspiring them to deliver solutions that solve customer problems. She is a prolific speaker, having spoken at several global conferences including Davos, LA Blockchain Summit, and NFT.NYC, among others.
Medha is a mentor and has worked with organizations including Strongurl to elevate and encourage women in blockchain/tech. In her personal life, Medha is a wife and mother to three children, and holds a black belt in karate. Medha graduated summa cum laude from Coleman College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and Programming.
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About CasperLabs: CasperLabs, a leading blockchain software company for the enterprise market, is re-imagining blockchain for enterprise with a future proof solution. The company also provides development, support and advisory services for organizations building on the Casper network.
Guided by open-source principles, CasperLabs is committed to supporting the next wave of blockchain adoption among businesses and providing developers with a reliable and secure framework to build private, public and hybrid blockchain applications.
Its team possesses deep enterprise technology experience with a cumulative 100 years of enterprise experience, hailing from organizations including Google, Adobe, AWS, Dropbox and Microsoft. To learn more, visit www.casperlabs.io.
Gian Merlino
Co-Founder and CTO of Imply
Gian Merlino is CTO and cofounder of Imply and is one of the original committers of the Druid project.Previously, he worked at Metamarkets and Yahoo. Gian holds a BS in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.
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About Imply: Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Jim Walsh
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of GlobalLogic
With over 30 years of software development experience, Jim Walsh brings diverse technology management capabilities to GlobalLogic. As Chief Technology Officer, Jim is responsible for leading GlobalLogic’s horizontal technology practices, technical advisory services, and solution accelerator initiatives. Jim joined GlobalLogic from Chordiant (now PegaSystems), where he served as Vice President and General Manager of Offshore Operations. At Chordiant, Jim established and grew development centers in Bangalore, India and in Eastern Europe and led the adoption of Agile processes worldwide. Previously, he was responsible for Apple’s OS X network and web software development via the company’s acquisition of NeXT Software. During his career, Jim has led architecture and re-architecture initiatives for scores of verticals (e.g., agriculture, health care, retail and warehouse logistics, etc.), as well as more technically-oriented platforms such as web application servers, real-time decision analysis platforms, security frameworks, and IoT. Jim earned his B.A. in Physics and Math from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University. He is also a frequent speaker and blogger on technical subjects and distributed software development best practices. In his free time, Jim enjoys reading political thrillers and science fiction, following current events, and spending time with his family.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & CTO of Databricks
Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks. He started the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to serve as its vice president at Apache. Matei also co-started the Apache Mesos project and is a committer on Apache Hadoop. Matei’s research work on datacenter systems was recognized through two Best Paper awards and the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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About Databricks, Stanford University, The Apache Software Foundation: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Matt Kraning
Co-Founder & CTO of Expanse
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Mohan Reddy
Cofounder & Founding CTO of Astound
Mohan Reddy is the Co-Founder and Founding CTO at Astound.
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About Astound, FogHorn, FogHorn, SkyHive, Stanford University, The Hive, Vizzario: Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service.
Eng Lim Goh
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Goh completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Dave Carlisle
CTO of IT of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Carlisle is the chief technologist for Hewlett Packard Enterprise IT group and an HPE Fellow. He is responsible for leading HPE’s enterprise IT architecture and software development, and overseeing HPE R&D engineering and HPE labs collaboration.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Barry McAuliffe
Advanced Technology Development (Office of CTO) of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Laurel Krieger
Vice President, Strategy and Operations, Chief of Staff for the CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Beena Ammanath
CTO – Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Beena Ammanath is a senior technology executive with over 23 years proven track record of building core big data and data science competencies. Currently associated with GE and her focus is on strategy, execution, and operations for turning data into impactful revenue generating innovative products and solutions. She is successful at building, inspiring and growing high performance global teams. Beena is also a featured speaker on the topics of Data Science, Big Data, Technology Transformation and Women in Leadership, at numerous industry conferences. She is dedicated to supporting diversity in technology.
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About GE Digital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Adam Evans
Co-Founder & CTO of Airkit
Adam Evans is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Airkit.
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About Airkit: Airkit is a customer engagement platform that enables brands to quickly build digital customer experiences.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Hans Lee
CTO and Co-founder of Freedom Robotics
Hans Lee is the CTO and Co-Founder of Freedom Robotics. He is also the Startup advisor, architect, and developer-in-residence at Innovativelee. Hans is a former CEO and CTO (Acquired by Tobii) at Sticky.ai and was Location-Aware API Lead at Fitbit. Mr. Lee graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a concentration in AI.
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About Freedom Robotics: Freedom Robotics is a software company that creates powerful control and monitoring software for modern robotics companies.
Ravi Balupari
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CloudVector
Ravi Balupari, Aiguo Fei, and Lebin Cheng founded ArecaBay in 2018, since which Ravi has been serving as its CTO.
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About CloudVector: CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.
Allen Miu
Co-founder and CTO of Frontiir
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About Frontiir: Frontiir provides affordable digital access and useful information services to people and helps overcome the global digital divide.
Rajeev Dadia
Chief Technology Officer of Saama
Saama Technologies‘ Chief Technology Officer, Rajeev Dadia drives the technology roadmap to enhance Saama’s technical edge and improve overall quality through leadership in delivery process and resource management. Previously at Saama, he lead the development of strategies, methodologies, and partnerships that enhance Saama’s solution sets offered during each client engagement. Rajeev focuses on cloud, syndicated data sources, social data, and mobile technologies as it impacts the data and analytics needs of the organization. He has 20 years of successive experience in leadership roles at Saama and at Silicon Graphics (SGI) in Corporate Information Systems. Rajeev has created BI and Analytic strategies for large organizations and managed large-scale deployments of data warehousing, analytics and applied data mining/predictive analytics systems in diverse business environments. He has also been involved in analysis, design and deployment of both B2C and B2B solutions in different vertical industries. In addition, he led the development of a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence operation to provide offshore development capabilities. He earned an M.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Chico.
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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.
Yoshio Turner
CTO & Co-Founder of Banyan Security
Yoshio Turner has deep experience in architecting and building reliable, scalable, and secure systems. Prior to founding Banyan, Yoshio was a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs in the Networking and Mobility Laboratory. Over 15 years at HP Labs, he led projects in the areas of software-defined networking, virtualization, and data center system architecture, resulting in business unit tech transfers, several peer-reviewed publications and presentations at top venues, and over 30 granted patents. Yoshio received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science & Engineering, all from UCLA.
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About Banyan Security: Banyan Security provides a zero trust network access platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Hugo Dozois-Caouette
Co-Founder and CTO of MaintainX
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About MaintainX, Townsquared: MaintainX is a mobile-first workflow management platform that allows factory frontline teams to know what they need to do and how to do it.
Zhen Peng
Founder, CTO of Leia
Zhen has always been enthusiastic in adopting technologies to enrich life, bringing wow moments to the everyday through nano-photonics. At Leia Inc., Zhen is leading the efforts in nano-fabrication to implement it’s core technology in mass production, putting his fingerprint on a product that can truly make an impact in people’s life.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
Arvind Sundararajan
CTO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Arvind Sundararajan is the CTO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. Before starting RealityEngines.AI,he was a senior technical lead at Uber’s autonomous vehicles division where he led the Autonomy Systems team, responsible for wide ranging software initiatives across the autonomy stack spanning onboard software, ML, and infrastructure. Previously, he was the CTO and co-founder of Post Intelligence. Before Post Intelligence, he was at Google, where he was the technical lead for AdSense’s machine learning and serving system, and the technical lead for GMail’s backend system (part of the initial launch team). Arvind was the recipient of two founders awards at Google and has a M.S. (CS) degree from Stanford and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Jeroen Cappaert
CTO & Co-Founder of Spire Global
Mechanical/Electrical/Aerospace engineer, passionate about space and astronautics. Currently Lead satellite payload and avionics engineer and co-founder at Spire Global Inc. in San Francisco. Previous work and research includes high-enthalpy flow simulation, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, spacecraft avionics and payload design, geo-engineering, and low-thrust astrodynamics at institutions such as NASA Ames, Von Karman Institute, International Space University.
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About NASA Ames Research Center, Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Heather Rivers
Chief Technology Officer of Mode Analytics
Heather Rivers is the chief executive officer of Mode Analytics. Most recently, she was a senior software development lead at Microsoft. Prior to MS, Heather served as Yammer, Airtime, and Ooga Labs. Healther holds a degree in Linguistics from the University of Chicago.
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About Mode Analytics: Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions.
Barry Shteiman
Co-founder and CTO of BlastRadius
Co-founder of BlastRadius, ex Exabeam and Imperva
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About BlastRadius: BlastRadius is a stealth-mode startup based in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area.
Brian Wilson
CTO of Backblaze
Brian Wilson is the CTO at Backblaze.
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About Backblaze: Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Thomas B. Pedersen
CTO & founder of OneLogin
Thomas has more than 15 years of experience in building and selling carrier-grade billing systems for phone companies, initially at Cisco-backed Digiquant in Denmark and later at Intec Telecom Systems in the US. After having helped Zendesk grow to 5,000 customers as VP Business Development, he is now laser-focused on making OneLogin the most widely deployed identity management solution in the cloud.
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Simon Ratner
CTO & Founder of Proxy
Simon Ratner, CTO & Co-Founder Simon Ratner is the co-founder and CTO of Proxy, a company on a mission to empower all people with a digital identity signal that’s universally accessible, secure and private. At Proxy, he strives to create technologies that revolutionize the way we experience the physical world while empowering people to maintain complete control of their identity, data, and privacy. Before Proxy, Ratner was the co-founder of Inporia and Omnisio, which was acquired by Google, and an engineer at Jive Software, Youtube, and Sensory Networks. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as dual Bachelor’s degrees in Software Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Sydney.
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About Proxy: Access More, Share Less. Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. With Proxy ID, your world is now open.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Paul Master
CTO of Cornami
Paul Master has over 30 years’ experience in high tech development and management in both start-up company environments and large corporations. His previous roles included positions as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Systems Engineering, VP of Architecture, and Director of Marketing among others. He has held positions in multiple startups, as well as larger companies such as The Boeing Company, ARGOSystems, & ACER America. Master was on the team that shipped the industry’s first Digital Trans-multiplexer, the first 3D Seismic Array Correlator for the Geophysical Industry, commercialized the first Cascaded Integrated Comb Filters IC’s and the first Smart Antenna Cellular Base Stations. Master helped start and commercialize the field of Reconfigurable Computing. While at The Boeing Company, Master co-founded a new division; to bring Reconfigurable Computing based telecommunications products to market. Master has over 100 patents issued or pending, over 35 professional publications and 13 first pass ASIC successes. He has been the keynote speaker & conference speaker at a variety of technical conferences dealing with multi-core, reconfigurable computing, FPGA, Software Defined Radio and Computer Architectures. His specialties are low power architectures, multi-core processor systems, digital signal processing, multi-media, software defined radio, wireless, massively parallel computing, & telecommunications. Master received a B.A. in Computer Science from The University of California at Berkeley, and a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Kelvin Cheung
CTO, Founder of LeanData
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About LeanData: LeanData is a platform that enables revenue teams (marketing, sales, customer, and partner ops) to manage all go-to-market motions.
Abe Han
Co-Founder & CTO of Kinside
Abe is from Vancouver, Canada, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Since then, he has worked professionally as a UX Designer / Information Architect, as well as developing Web, Mobile, & Multimedia Software for 8 years.
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About Kinside: Curated child care marketplace accessible only through employers
Isaac Mosquera
Chief Technology Officer of Armory
Isaac has been architecting large-scale systems for the past 13 years. Isaac co-founded FamilyOven.com, the top recipe oriented social networking site. Isaac brings extensive experience in online publisher content and high scalability/load websites from FamilyOven.com and XM Radio, as well as a background in user acquisition and retention strategies, and has created high scalability/load websites for brands such as Games Radar by Future Publishing (topping 100MM page views monthly).
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About Armory: Armory is an enterprise software company commercializing the open-source continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker.
Yun Fu
Co-Founder, CTO of Otter.ai
Yun is CTO and Co-Founder of Otter.ai. Previously, Yun was Head of Infrastructure in Particle Media Inc, Director Engineering in Alohar Mobile, and Principal Engineer in Yahoo. Yun held a number of patents in mobile technologies, distributed systems and information retrieval. Yun has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
Zachary Goldberg
Co-founder, CTO/COO of Lynk Messenger
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About Lynk Messenger: Lynk Messenger is a hyper-local messaging application that lets its users to chat with friends nearby for free.
Kevin Law
Co-founder, CTO of Cambly
Kevin Law is Founder at Cambly.
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About Cambly: On-demand access to English tutors over video chat.
Lior Rozner
Co-Founder & CTO of Twingate
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About Twingate: Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Justin Thomas
CTO of Vantage Data Centers
Justin Thomas leads the design and engineering team at Vantage. He helms data center build projects for both Santa Clara and Quincy campuses, which include client spaces from a range of sectors, including the Fortune 100, commercial, Internet, social media and gaming. Justin is also part of the team that leads planning and design for future market expansion projects. As lead of innovative design and long term engineering strategy development, Justin has helped build enterprise style facilities that achieve PUEs as low as 1.15. He is also the creator of the electrical guide specifications at Vantage and has participated in certification of 4 LEED platinum certified facilities, as well as 1 Uptime Tier III certified facility. Prior to Vantage, Justin was a member of the Mission Critical Design Team at Rosendin Electric and the electrical engineering department at Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
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About Vantage Data Centers: Vantage Data Centers is a company that provides data center solutions.
Ambika Acharya
Co-founder, CTO of Weav
Ambika Acharya is a Co-founder, CTO at Weav.
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About Weav: Weav is an API for commerce platforms that allows its users to access their customers’ standardized transaction data in real-time.
Graham Melcher
Co-founder & CTO of Hint Health
Co-Founder & CTO at Hint Health. Specialties: Systems Architecture, Product Design, Ruby, Rails, Restful API Design, Postgresql, DB Design, Angular.js, Node.js, Management, Leadership
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO & Co-Founder of Abnormal Security
Sanjay Jeyakumar is CTO and co-founder of Abnormal Security. He was a founding engineer at TellApart (acquired by Twitter for $500M+) and a lead engineer at Google working on search technology and the launch of Android.
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Kesav Kumar Kolla
CTO of Hotelsoft
Kesav has been working as a technologist for over 15 years. During this time he worked as a programmer and architect on development and deployment of large scale clinical information systems. Kesav is comfortable in implementing solutions using tools that are right for the job ranging from Microsoft’s technology stack, Java/J2EE, Cache/CSP, Ruby on Rails and Node.js. He has also worked on the development of interfaces using eGate, Ensemble and Enterprise Data Warehousing/Reporting technologies from SAP, Oracle, Epic, Tableau and others. Kesav has a Masters degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He enjoys tinkering with electronics, outdoor activities and programming.
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About 314e Corporation, 314e Corporation, Hotelsoft: Software solutions and services to independent and chain scale hotels.
Mark Barrenechea
CEO & CTO of OpenText Corporation
Mark J. Barrenechea joined OpenText as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2012, and also serves as a member of the Board. In January 2016, Mark took on the role of Chief Technology Officer. As CEO of Canada’s largest software company, Mark oversees the strategic direction of the organization and upholds the company’s position at the forefront of the industry. Under his direction, the Company has grown both organically and through strategic acquisitions, into a $2.3 billion technology company. Mark’s unwavering commitment to innovation and results, combined with a dedication to customers’ needs, led him to successfully realign the company’s products, transforming OpenText into an Enterprise Information Management leader. A prominent thought leader, Mark‘s extensive experience in information technology affords him a unique insight into the technological changes ushering in the fourth industrial revolution. In his latest book, The Golden Age of Innovation, he identifies the opportunity this unprecedented change holds for today’s businesses and how to successfully maneuver the ever-changing digital world. Before joining OpenText, Mark was President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Graphics International Corporation (SGI), where he also served as a member of the Board. A pioneer of Technical Computing, Mark defined and distinguished the new market from Business Computing and established SGI as one of its leaders. During his time at SGI, he led the company’s strategy and execution. His role included transformative acquisition of assets as well as penetrating diverse new markets and geographic regions. Prior to SGI, Mark served as Executive Vice President and CTO for CA, Inc. (CA), (formerly Computer Associates International, Inc.) and, as a member of the executive management team. Mark was also Senior Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle Corporation, responsible for managing a multi-thousand member global team. Additionally, he was a member of the executive management team. Mark has also served in a number of other positions including, Vice President of Development at Scopus, a software applications company, and Vice President of Development at Tesseract, where he was responsible for reshaping the company’s line of CRM and human capital management software. Mark has been the recipient of many accolades over the years. In 2011, the San Francisco Business Times named him the 2011 Best Large Company CEO. Most recently, he was named the 2015 Results-Oriented CEO of the year by the CEO World Awards. The prestigious award recognizes Mark’s leadership and innovation in attaining results for the company and its customers. In addition, Mark has authored several books including The Golden Age of Innovation, On Digital, Digital: Disrupt or Die, eGovernment or Out of Government, Enterprise Information Management: The Next Generation of Enterprise Software, Software Rules and e-Business or out of Business. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Saint Michael’s College. He currently serves as a member of the Board and Audit Committee of Dick’s Sporting Goods and also serves as a board member of Hamilton Insurance Group.
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About Hightail, OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Shivnath Babu
Co-Founder and CTO of Unravel Data
Shivnath Babu is an associate professor of computer science at Duke University, where his research focuses on ease of use and manageability of data-intensive systems, automated problem diagnosis, and cluster sizing for applications running on cloud platforms. He is also the chief scientist at Unravel Data Systems, the company he cofounded to solve the application management challenges that companies face when they adopt systems like Hadoop and Spark. Unravel originated from the Starfish platform built at Duke, which has been downloaded by over 100 companies. Shivnath has received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, three IBM Faculty Awards, and an HP Labs Innovation Research Award. He has given talks and distinguished lectures at many research conferences and universities worldwide. Shivnath has also spoken at industry conferences, such as the Hadoop Summit.
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About Unravel Data: Unravel is radically simplifying the management and of big data applications and systems.
Jeremy Baker
Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline
Jeremy Baker is a developer and entrepreneur who has been involved in web design, online product development, and technology startups since 1997. He has designed and developed a wide range of projects — from small, innovative sites and tools to high-traffic business applications, from the server level all the way up to the business design level. As a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo! Inc., he developed tools and programs across the company, including an innovative Prototyping and Experimentation tool that was subsequently pushed out to nearly every Yahoo! property, and which won him the Yahoo! SuperStar award in 2010. Jeremy was also a regular guest speaker at universities worldwide as part of Yahoo!’s HackU program. Jeremy is a regular speaker on topics surrounding innovation and creativity. And his work and ideas have been featured on TechCrunch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com, and other high profile publications. He is currently a co-founder of a well-funded enterprise software company based in San Francisco, CA. He also runs SupporterWall.com, an innovative online fundraising tool. Jeremy speaks English, French, and Spanish and has lived in Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, and Mexico City. He and his wife currently call Vancouver, Canada home.
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About SupporterWall, Zipline: Zipline is the operations platform that powers retail’s most complex work.
Cyrus Karbassiyoon
CTO & Co-Founder of Scratchpad
CTO and Co-founder at Scratchpad .
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About Scratchpad: Scratchpad is an all-in-one sales efficiency toolkit that allows users to consolidate and streamline the different aspects of sales.
Dan Tentler
CTO of Carbon Dynamics
Dan Tentler (@Viss) has been working in the field of computer security since 2008. Having begun his own consultancy, he was contracted to assist with both the attack and the defense of software companies, financial organizations, electrical utilities and social media companies. Dan has trained himself in the ways of the skilled attacker, and keeps abreast of the current threat landscape in an effort to bring only the most precise, most refined tradecraft to his clientele. Now, as the CTO of Carbon Dynamics, Dan routinely conducts security engagements for a wide variety of industries and businesses.
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About Carbon Dynamics: A computer and network security company
Rawlinson Rivera
Chief Technology Officer, Global Field of Cohesity
Rawlinson Rivera is the CTO for Global Field of Cohesity.
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About Cohesity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Gajus Kuizinas
CTO of Contra
Hands-on technology leader known for a good understanding of the entertainment, advertisement and Wi-Fi industries. Extensive experience delivering scalable end-to-end solutions for starts-ups and large enterprises. Uniquely qualified to lead technical development as well as day to day execution. Breadth of experience engaging business leaders and deeply technical audiences alike. Founder of multiple successful start-ups.
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About Contra: Contra is a networking platform that gives users the freedom and opportunity to work independently.
Tong Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of Timecros
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About Timecros: Digital life sharing
Kelby Green
CTO of VergeSense
Kelby Green is the CTO at VergeSense.
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About VergeSense: VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Alexander Yakunin
CTO of ServiceTitan
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About ServiceTitan: ServiceTitan is a service management software that helps home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales.
Vijay Krishnan
Founder and CTO of Turing
Founder & CTO, at Turing. Earlier, Founder & CTO of Rover, acquired by Revcontent where I was SVP of Data Science. • Senior Data Science/Machine Learning/Engineering/Business/Product leader. • Experienced in building, growing and leading teams applying large scale machine learning methods toward creating massive commercial value. • 10 years industry experience leading Large Scale commercial Machine Learning Efforts toward problems in text categorization, personalized search, personalized content recommendations, CTR prediction and eCPM maximization for personalized and contextual ad targeting, and optimization of other business objectives as Sr. Scientist at Yahoo, as Founder & CTO of Rover and as Senior Vice President of Data Science at Revcontent. • Co-founded Rover, served as Co-CEO, later as CTO, raised over $6 Million in Venture Capital, hired a stellar team of engineers and designers, negotiated multiple business partnerships, drove different aspects of the product and ensured a successful exit by way of acquisition by Revcontent. • Led growth efforts at Rover, whose web app (then called Flipora) grew to 40 Million registered users. • Drove revenue growth via careful metrics optimization and business partnerships and generated over $5 Million in revenues at Rover, before its acquisition in Feb 2017. • Authored highly cited Machine Learning, Web Search, Semantic Search, Entity extraction, Data Mining and NLP related papers in top conferences and journals. • Computer Science at IIT Bombay, Stanford University.
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About Turing: Turing is an information technology company that enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to hire software engineers.
Nick Galbreath
CTO/Founder of Signal Sciences
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About Fastly, Signal Sciences: Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Wenzhe Gao
Co-Founder & CTO of Nom Nom
Wenzhe is Nom Nom’s co-founder and CTO, leading efforts to build and scale Nom Nom’s technical infrastructure and digital product suite. Prior to Nom Nom, Wenzhe spent 10 years at Google, where he led engineering for various consumer business units. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Nom Nom: We make real food to support healthier, longer lives for folks with paws. Because what’s good for people is good for pets too.
Yu Fang
CTO and Co-Founder of Sonatus
Yu Fang is the CTO and co-founder at Sonatus.
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About Sonatus: Sonatus builds game-changing vehicle and cloud-based software solutions that create a future-proof foundation for software-defined vehicles.
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO of 4iQ
Julio Casal is the Founder & CTO at Constella Intelligence.
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About 4iQ, AT&T CyberSecurity, Constella Intelligence, Survela: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Vivek Garud
Co-Founder & CTO of Bidgely
Vivek is leading the technology team which is building the biggest and best energy analytics system yet. Prior to Bidgely, Vivek contributed to building voice recognition technology at Microsoft. He has a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Once done solving the worlds energy problems, he fantasizes of becoming a full time musician and doing big things in Bollywood.
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Christopher Mueller
Co-Founder & CTO of Bitmovin
Christopher Mueller is CEO and Co-founder of bitmovin and Head of Technology. He received his M.Sc (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Science from the Aplen-Adria University Klagenfurt with distinction. He gained practical expertise in various companies, notably Infineon Semiconductors and Dolby Laboratories Inc. Los Angeles, USA. His main research interests are multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation. In his position as an Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC) he has published more than 20 papers in these areas and currently holds 2 U.S. patents. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash. He contributed several open source tools, notably MPEG-DASH VLC plugin and libdash, worked in various EC-funded projects, e.g., ALICANTE and SocialSensor, and he is the supervisor and main contributor of the MPEG-DASH ITEC blog (dash.itec.aau.at) with more than 100k views per year.
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About Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Drew Wingard
CTO, Board Member & Co-Founder of Sonics
Dr. Drew E Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996 and has served as Chief Technical Officer, Secretary and Director since 1997. Dr. Wingard has currently been awarded 30 US patent during his time at Sonics. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Wingard led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, and currently serves on the board of directors for Accellera Systems Initiative. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About Sonics: Sonics supplies on-chip communications solutions for home entertainment, wireless, networking and mobile devices.
