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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 CTO’ operating in the Internet 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.
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.
John Bicket
CTO of Samsara
John is responsible for Samsara’s disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering.At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks. Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki’s platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco’s fastest-growing cloud product. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Ben Calderon
CTO Hardware, Operations and Support of Samsara
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About Samsara: Samsara helps businesses in harnessing IoT data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations.
Alex Vauthey
CTO & Co-founder of Curated
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About Curated: Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Gaurav Agarwal
Co-Founder & CTO of 1mg
Gaurav Agarwal is CTO @ HealthKart Plus.
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About 1mg: 1mg is an online pharmacy network platform and generic medicine engine.
Geva Solomonovich
CTO, Global Alliances of Snyk
Geva brings 13+ years of experience in tech startups, with specialized experience in Fraud Management and Payments. Prior to joining Openbucks, Geva managed PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library. Before that, he co-founded PayPal’s Risk department Architecture group, in which he lead the architecture of a ground breaking, large scale, multi-tiered and highly scalable new Fraud Detection Platform. Before that, Geva managed development in FraudSciences, where he built the automated Fraud Detection Machine Learning algorithms which were a critical part in making the FraudSciences’ acquisition for $170M by PayPal happen. Geva holds a B.Sc Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, and is currently completing his MBA from Haas School of Business in Berkeley. In his free time, Geva enjoys road biking, playing the drums and poker.
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About Openbucks, Snyk: Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
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.
Rob Fan
Founder & CTO/COO of Sharethrough USA
Rob leads all product and technology strategy for the company. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far. Prior to Sharethrough, Rob worked as a technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton advising various three-letter government agencies. As an early adopter of the Facebook platform, Rob was one of the teaching assistants for the first-ever “Facebook Class” while at Stanford. Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Parag Chordia
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of HOOKED
Parag Chordia is the director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, and CTO of Khush. Parag is Chief Scientist at Smule. He is the former director of the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab, a research institute funded by the National Science Foundation to build intelligent systems that are musically creative. Parag was recently the recipient of the competitive NSF CAREER Award for his research in music prediction. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He has extensive experience managing commercial software development, and is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label. Parag is an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
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About HOOKED, Telepathic: HOOKED is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation.
Oliver Pedersen
Co-founder and CTO of Yahoo
Oliver is co-founder of PlayerScale and an Internet entrepreneur who designs and builds highly scalable distributed systems for the Web. He has over 10 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and online communities as well as managing development teams. Prior to PlayerScale, he co-founded the venture-funded gaming site Nonoba.com and service platform Player.IO.
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About GameClub, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Sriranjan Manjunath
CTO & Head of Engineering of JioSaavn
Sriranjan Manjunath (Sri) is the CTO of Saavn, India’s leading music streaming service. Sri joined Saavn in 2010 and helped build out its infrastructure and create initial versions of its products. He has since led various engineering teams within Saavn and currently oversees all of its engineering efforts including product development, infrastructure and operations. Prior to Saavn, Sri was a lead engineer at Yahoo focussing on building scalable backend systems.
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About JioSaavn: Saavn is a music streaming service for Indian, Bollywood, and International content.
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Oskar Bruening
CTO & Co-founder of Peek
Oskar Bruening is Co-founder & CTO of Peek.com. He loves travel and exploring cultures and their histories. He knows 6 languages, amongst them ancient Greek and Korean. Oskar got his engineering start at the age of 14, leading to a B.Sc. and a M.Eng. from MIT in EE/CS. He was the director of engineering and founding employee at ccLoop/Pipewise and built serious software at VMware and Vontu/Symantec. On the side he is deeply passionate about art and design, thanks to growing up in an artist’s family and a second education at the San Francisco Studio School.
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About Peek: Peek is a booking software and marketplace for delightful things to do such as wine tours, watersports, skydiving, and art classes.
Mehmet Yavuz
Co-Founder and CTO of Celona
Mehmet Yavuz is the Co-Founder and CTO of Celona.
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About Celona: Celona accelerates adoption of digital automation and critical apps on enterprise wireless.
Vic Cekvenich
CTO – COO of Apakau
I am a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record of success. I have over thirty years experience combining a strong technical background and business leadership. I believe that technology must be developed solely to achieve business objectives and to satisfy market demands. I believe innovation happens with small and elite teams of superstars rather than with armies of mediocre players. I also believe that creating an environment of high innovation requires a culture of high-output based on merit; a place where people are rewarded for taking good risks.
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About Apakau: Apakau’s Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution that stops (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data.
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.
Pan Pan
Co-Founder, CTO of Pietra
Pan Pan is a co-founder and the CTO of Pietra.
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About Pietra: Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.
Sam Solomon
CTO of Brilliant.org
Sam is the lead developer at Alltuition and architects all of our Planners. When he’s not at the office (rare), Sam builds robots and helps organize a national college-level air and ground robotics competition.He can also fix almost anything including replacing brake pads, rewiring phone patch-bays, repairing an intelligent lighting control console, returning an jammed old dead bolt system to like new working condition and optimizing a 10,000 watt sound system.He studied Computer Science at Illinois Institue of Technology and manages Alltuition’s data and systems.
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About Brilliant.org: Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
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.
Cameron Morris
CTO of Fabrica
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About Fabrica: We make real estate programmable
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.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
Amos Schallich
CTO & Co-founder of eero
Amos Schallich is a co-founder of eero inc. and serves as its Vice President of Engineering-Software. Amos Schallich previously worked at Tagged and BigTent, where he focused on backend server development and scaling. He studied large-scale distributed systems at Stanford.
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About eero: Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use.
David P. Mariani
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of AtScale
Dave Mariani is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the VP of Technology. Prior to AtScale,he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.
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About AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
Enrique Rodriguez
EVP and CTO of Liberty Global
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Vibol Hou
Chief Technology Officer of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Rong Yan
Chief Technology Officer of Verishop
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About Verishop: Verishop is a premium lifestyle company that offers everyday luxury in fashion, beauty, home, and more.
Nick Bushak
Co-founder, President, and CTO of Gem
Nick Bushak is a Co-Founder, President, and CTO at Gem. Before starting Gem, Nick spent 6 years at Facebook, where he led various engineering teams for Facebook Pages, Ads, and Messenger.
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About Gem: Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Josh Newman
Co-Founder and CTO of Spectrum Labs
A former Software Architect at Salesforce, Josh began his career at a research center of Middlebury College. After transitioning to tech, Josh spent a decade developing scalable data management and distributed systems at Vodori, Syapse, and Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Daniel Marashlian
Co-Founder & CTO of Drata
Daniel has specialized his career in leading & creating the technology for successful startups and enterprises. Currently, Daniel is the Co-Founder & CTO at [Drata](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/drata). Before that, Daniel was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Portfolium](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/portfolium), a student success platform. Prior, Daniel joined up with the Co-Founders of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to start [RapidEngage](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rapidengage). He was part of the acquisition of [Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to [Lockerz](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lockerz). Former CTO and creator of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) which supported a giant piece of the photo sharing ecosystem on [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). He also was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Pelotonics](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pelotonics), a simple online project management system.
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About Drata: Drata is a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance workflow on a company’s security controls.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Daniel Undurraga
Founder & CTO of Cornershop
Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.
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About 0BS, Cornershop: Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Yaniv Kopelman
Networking CTO, Sr. Director of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO of Computable
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Co-Founder & CTO of Constellation Labs
With over five years of experience as a Software Engineer & Data Scientist in Silicon Valley, Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the CTO and Co-founder of Constellation Labs. Prior to co-founding Constellation Labs, Wyatt contributed to the Graphic User Interface of the Kepler spacecraft’s light curve data and the implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication for NASA. He also served as a data engineer for Radius Intelligence and Rally Health, a platform engineer for Zignal Labs, and as the Lead Backend Engineer for Arrived.us. Wyatt holds a B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary.
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About Constellation Labs, Lattice Exchange: Constellation Labs is a blockchain microservice operating system based company.
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Nicholas Pilkington
CTO, Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Nicholas Pilkington is the founder of DroneDeploy, a platform for simple managed drone operations. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed degrees in computer science, maths and information systems at Rhodes University. After graduating he started a Ph.D in machine learning at the University of Cambridge (Magadalene College) on a Nelson Mandela Rhodes University Scholarship. While at Cambridge Nicholas co-founded MyMoneyDog and Curious-Orange as well as the South African Bitcoin Exchange, Bitx. He currently resides in SOMA, San Francisco.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Scott Fitsimones
Co-founder and CTO of AirGarage
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About AirGarage: AirGarage is the 21st century parking operator. We handle everything it takes to run your parking asset.
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.
Ben Longmier
Co-founder & CTO of Swarm Technologies
Dr. Ben Longmier was previously the Founder and CEO of Aether Industries (acquired by Apple in 2015). While at Apple, Ben led an Aerospace R&D effort for several company objectives. Prior to working at Apple, Ben was a tenure track Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Ben holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA-JSC.
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About Swarm Technologies: Swarm enables global connectivity with the world’s most affordable satellite network.
Farokh Eskafi
Founder and President and CTO of 11Sight
Farokh Eskafi is founder, president and CTO at 11Sight.
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About 11Sight, Santa Clara University, TagArray: Inbound Video Call and Customer Engagement Platform For Revenue Teams
Eric Lyon Miles
Chief Technology Officer of Mogo
Eric Miles has been Mogo’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2012 and has over 30 years of experience leading world-class software and technology companies. Mr. Miles’ former roles include CEO, SVP/GM/VP at companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Bi3 Solutions, AssetPoint, Entopia, Sybase, Informix and Ingres.He has deep expertise in managing the innovation, development and support of category creating technology. Significant innovative technologies include; first relational database (DB2), first mainframe UNIX system (UTS), first high-speed columns oriented database for big data analysis, personalized text search engine relating topics to employee work profiles, and mobile application for manufacturing equipment maintenance management and service prediction. Mr. Miles is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Mathematics.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
Jun Yang
Co-Founder,& CTO of Dada-JD Daojia
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About Dada-JD Daojia: Dada-JD Daojia owns and operates an online crowdsourcing logistics portal and provides local instant delivery service.
Kenter Wu
Co-founder & CTO of Dealpath
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About Dealpath: Dealpath is the intelligent software solution empowering smart investment decisions with data-driven insights and digital collaboration
Brad Vogel
Co-founder & CTO of Mixmax
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About Mixmax: Mixmax is a sales engagement platform that helps sales and customer success teams accelerate revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Christopher He
Co-Founder & CTO of Bravado
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About Bravado, Grady Health System: Bravado is a community platform for sales professionals.
Alan Messer
Chief Technology Officer of MOJIO
Alan Messer has been a worldwide leader in advanced software and intelligent services for connected consumers for more than 20 years. Alan is the CTO of Mojio and leads InnovationShift, where he works with autonomous, automotive, consumer and IoT companies, helping define or revise their technology strategies. Formerly, he was Vice President of Software and Innovation and CTO of Global Connected Consumer Experience at General Motors. Alan was also Vice President of Advanced Software Technology at Samsung Electronics. Currently, he also serves several industry organizations in advisory or board roles, including the Microsoft AI Advisory Council and the DAV Alliance.
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About MOJIO: Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
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
Clark Li
Technical Founder | CTO of Rently
Clark Li is Founder @ Rently.
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About Rently: Rently offers a self-service showing and smart home solution for property managers, real estate developer, and multifamily operators.
Peter Rive
Chief Technology Officer of Everdream
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About Everdream: Everdream is a digital content agency providing on-demand personal computer and desktop management software services.
Liam Stannard
Chief Technology Officer of BigRentz
Liam Stannard is Chief Technology Officer at BigRentz.
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About BigRentz: BigRentz is an online construction equipment rental marketplace with over 2,500 partners with 8,500 rental yards.
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
Bob Remeika
Co-Founder and CTO of Internal
Bob Remeika is the co-founder and CTO of Harbor & Internal.
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About Harbor, Internal: Internal offers a tool that helps companies resolve customer issues.
Alma Madsen
Co-founder & CTO of Workona
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About Workona: Workona is the work management platform for teams who want to effortlessly pull together projects, documents, & apps in one place.
Oleg Pravdin
CTO of Lingualeo
Oleg Pravdin is Technical Director at Lingualeo.
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About Lingualeo: Lingualeo.com is an online service for learning and practicing English, used by 17 million people around the world!
Neelesh Shastry
CTO and Cofounder of Syncari
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About Adobe, Marketo, Syncari: Syncari is a modern Data Automation Platform
Samuel Hoffstaetter
Co-Founder and CTO of Short Story
Samuel Hoffstaetter is the Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Short Story.
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About Short Story: Short Story is the first online retailer and top rated personal styling service focused exclusively on petite women’s sizing.
James Penney
Chief Technology Officer of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Rajeev Singh
Chief Technology Officer of Autogrid
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About Autogrid: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Ethan Sutin
Co-founder/CTO of Squad
Ethan has been coding since he was 6 years old and is passionate about the intersection of social cognition and computer science. He spent 4 years as the lead engineer at Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project. His career spans low-level programming languages for container security to front-end mobile development at GoGrid, Sysdig and Code for America. Ethan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and a pursued a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (incomplete). Follow Molly on TwitterGet FeaturedSend Feedback
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About Squad: Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends in audio and video rooms.
Leo Jiang
CTO, Co-founder of Talech
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About Talech: Talech is a POS system that provides merchants with analytics and insights.
Joseph Essas
President and Chief Technology Officer of OpenTable
President and Chief Technology Officer at OpenTable.
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About FirstMark, OpenTable: OpenTable operates as an online restaurant booking service.
Cliff Click
CTO of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Julie Cullivan
CTO & CPO of ForeScout Technologies
As Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Information Officer, Julie brings over 25 years of systems and programs experience in enterprise high tech companies to FireEye. Most recently she was Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Operations at Autodesk, where she led the global rollout of new CRM, eLearning, and lead management systems, and evaluated new technologies and tools to improve productivity and optimize resources. Prior to Autodesk, Julie was senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations at McAfee, where she led the global sales and channel operations functions to drive go-to market strategies, best practices, systems, process, and productivity across five geographical theatres. Julie has also held executive roles at EMC, Asera, and Oracle. She received a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Eric Xu
Co-Founder and CTO of Globe
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About Globe: Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Joe Scalisi
Founder & CTO & Chief Innovation Officer of SkyBell
Joe is the creative genius and inventor behind SkyBell and its entire suite of products, which won a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in 2014. Joe holds 110 patents in Technology and is currently ranked at 241 of 1.5 million IoT patent holders. The video doorbell and related home security products is one of the hottest segments of the IoT space. Joe’s innovations have disrupted many markets dominated by industry giants. Joe’s patented technology has been or is used by Apple, AT&T, US Air Force, Honeywell, ADT, Alarm.com, Nest, Amazon and Comcast.
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About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Brian C. Dilley
CTO and Co-Founder of Unblocked
Brian C. Dilley is the Co-founder and CTO at Unblocked.
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About Unblocked: Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment.
Mark Merrill
CTO of NETGEAR
Mark Merrill is the CTO at Netgear.
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About NETGEAR, NetgearStore – India: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Jeff Argast
Chief Technology Officer of Litify
Jeff Argast is the chief technology officer of Litify.
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About Litify: Litify provides technology solutions for law firms by providing a trusted intelligent platform for practice management.
Daniel Spoonhower
Co-Founder and CTO of LightStep
Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is a cofounder at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project, a CNCF project. Previously, Spoons spent almost six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams, where he ate lots of snacks and worked on various products. Spoons holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science.
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About LightStep: LightStep’s mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate, and rely upon today’s powerful software applications.
Will Dayton
CTO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Giacomo Marinangeli
CTO & Co-Founder of Cloud Academy
With a Computer Science background, Giacomo has a long experience as a Sr. Software Engineer and Project Manager on several IT Projects for small and big companies. He loves creating products with Python, Django, Linux, PostgreSQL and Javascript.
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About Cloud Academy: The best enterprise e-learning platform for cloud technologies including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and the DevOps ecosystem
Jay Theodore
CTO of Esri
Jay Theodore is the CTO at Esri.
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About Esri, Esri UK: Esri is the global market leader in GIS, pioneering problem solving to help you see what others can’t. We build ArcGIS.
Zhen Shao
Co-Founder and CTO of Parent Lab Inc.
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About Parent Lab Inc.: ParentLab helps parents connect and grow with their children through insightful, research-based content.
Kevin Huang
CTO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Kevin’s engineering skills and passion form the foundation for the technology that powers Backbone Labs. He began his career as a consultant implementing and integrating enterprise systems where he learned the intricacies of automated systems. He then moved to the world of software engineering, helping develop various applications for companies and consumers. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys following hockey (go Sharks!) and MotoGP.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
David Wyatt
CTO of PixelDisplay, Inc.
Built first company 1993 in Taiwan, learning Mandarin on the fly, developing computer hardware/software, before coming to the US through an Intel acquisition. Track record for creating valuable IP (around 200 patents filed), leading teams delivering platform-wide innovations, aligning co-travellers and tackling the ecosystem challenges to successfully launch industry leading products that transform sectors. Including those shipped by Apple, Asus, DELL, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Sharp, Sony, and more. David has a passion for addressing challenging problems from a fresh perspective, with cross domain solutions, building cross-functional/cross-industry collaborations, to make it happen. But finds the challenge of mapping an idea, into a breathtaking new business model, can be when innovation is most disruptive. Specialties: IoT, Display Technologies (Color, HDR, LCD, OLED, MicroLED TCON, Panel), Security & Cryptography, FinTech & Payments, Computer Architecture (CPU, GPU, Memory & IO), Wireless/NFC, Fuzzy & Convolution Neural Net AI/ML and more.
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About PixelDisplay, Inc.: Imagine light in all colors, as bright and dark as the real world. Imagine Mobile HDR, IoT, AR/VR display devices, running days not hours.
Jin Lim
CTO & Co-Founder of Intellimize
Jin is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Intellimize. Prior to Intellimize, Jin held various senior engineering positions at Yahoo, including most recently the VP of Engineering role where he led the Personalization Platform group responsible for building large-scale personalized recommendations across the Yahoo network. Prior to Yahoo, Jin co-founded and sold Blue Tiger Networks, a startup that specialized in peer-to-peer trading platform. Jin has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Intellimize: Intellimize is a startup offering tools for marketers to drive conversions by personalizing websites.
Mark Jen
CTO of Common Networks
Mark is the CTO and co-founder of Common Networks. Prior to Common Networks,he worked at Square where he helped launch Square in Japan, and then started and led the developer platform team. Mark has a long track record of building and managing high-performance engineering and product teams; he was the VP of Engineering and first employee at Airtime, served as the Director of Engineering at Tagged / Ifwe, and led the Product Management team at Plaxo. Mark started his career at IBM and Microsoft, after graduating from University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering. He is an inventor on 6 issued patents and has multiple pending. His daughter, Riley, is three years old and his son, Zachary, is 9 months.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Chhay Chhun
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of KidPass
Chhay is the co-founder and CTO at KidPass. Chhay runs engineering and oversees the technical strategy of the company, and is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to modernize parenting. Chhay has an extensive background in web development and project management at The Economist, Time Out NY, and Forbes. Raised in the Bronx, Chhay has a deep-rooted love for NYC and believes KidPass will make the city a better place for raising families. Chhay received his BA from Harvard.
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About KidPass, NY Tech Mixer: KidPass is the new way for parents to discover and book amazing kids activities.
Pavel Tinuov
Co-founder & CTO of Cube Dev
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About Cube Dev, Statsbot: Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools.
Amit Sood
CTO and Head of Product of Simplr
Amit Sood is the CTO and head of product at Simplr. Prior to joining Simplr, Amit served as a senior director and head of product for Smart Home and IoT at Asurion.
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About Simplr: Excellent outsourced customer support for companies that care about their brand.
Tim Su
CTO of Tandem Chat
Tim Su is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has been involved in several startups including Palantir Technologies.
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About Tandem Chat: Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams.
Fleming Shi
Chief Technology Officer of Barracuda Networks
As the CTO for Barracuda Networks, I focus on driving transformative technology solutions to support Barracuda’s broad portfolio of products in security and data protection. The office of CTO is also the incubation engine to deliver forward-looking product and technology concepts. I lead the team from inception to productization while nurturing product engineering teams to maximize the feature capabilities. These solutions range from public cloud security SaaS, cross-product data platform and a collection of microservices which constantly evolve to take on the latest cyber threats. As we take advantage of the synergy between the integrated products from Email Security, Data Protection, Network Security to Application Security, we constantly deliver zero-hour threat intelligence with higher performance and efficacy to our customers. Additionally, I work with our corporate development team hand-in-hand to seek new technology partners and talent acquisitions to accelerate our growth.
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About Barracuda Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
Matan Goldschmiedt
Co-Founder & CTO of Pramp
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About Pramp: Pramp is an online community for software engineers, developers and hackers to practice live coding interviews, for free.
Sam Purtill
Co-Founder and CTO of Jyve
Sam Purtill is the co-founder and CTO of Jyve, a startup that provides on-demand merchandising services in the consumer packaged goods industry. Prior to Jyve, he was founder and CEO of ClassOwl, an edtech startup that was acquired by Branch Metrics in 2015. Sam was the first employee of the company that went onto become Quid (quid.com) in his two gap years after high school. He started programming at age 12 and studied philosophy at Stanford University.
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About Jyve: Jyve is a tech platform that matches brands’ in-store execution needs with the right skilled labor, at the right time.
David Vetrano
Co-Founder & CTO of Onfleet
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Braxton Woodham
CTO of Fandango
Braxton Woodham is President, Chief Techology Officer and Co-Founder of Lasso. Prior to Lasso, Braxton was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tap11, which was acquired by AVOS. He was formerly the CTO of InfoSpace’s mobile division where he was responsible for the infrastructure that serviced approximately 70% of all mobile web traffic in North America. Braxton joined InfoSpace through the acquisition of Moviso, where he served as VP, Technology and lead the development of the V4 Platform, which scaled by more than 100 times to support more than 16 million transactions per month across US, European and Australian carriers. Prior to joining Moviso / InfoSpace, Braxton served as Executive Director of Technology at Sony Music Digital Media Ventures, where he focused on new Internet initiatives including Keyhole, which later became Google Earth. Earlier Braxton served as Lead Propulsion Engineer for two Atlas missions and was a Captain in the United States Air Force.
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About Fandango: Fandango is a corporation that sells movie tickets via telephone and Internet.
Marios Assiotis
Chief Technology Officer of adRise
Marios is the chief code monkey with over a decade of professional development experience. As a Sr Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Hotmail storage platform, he helped store bits faster, cheaper and more reliably. Marios holds a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. When he’s not writing code, he’s either snowboarding, cooking elaborate meals for his friends or obsessively reading Hacker News.
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About adRise: AdRise is an internet TV ad platform that distributes and monetizes TV shows and movies by partnering with premium content owners.
Lucien Chen
CTO of Tron
Lucien Chen has served in many first-tier Internet companies, such as Netease youdao, Tencent, Qihoo 360
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About Tron: Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology.
Alex Tze-Pin Cheng
Chief Technology Officer of VIPKID
Alex Tze-Pin Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer at VIPKid.
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About VIPKID: VIPKid connects teachers in North America with children around the world for real-time English immersion learning online
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Xuan Jiang
Co-founder & CTO of Run The World
Xuan Jiang is a Co-founder and CTO at Run The World.
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About Run The World: Run The World is a digital event platform that is designed to host all types of events from cocktail parties to global conferences.
Tom Buscher
CTO of StoryCloud, Inc
Tom Buscher has 20 years of experience designing and developing software for computing systems for 99.999% or better uptime. Before joining Analog Analytics and StoryCloud, Tom was Software Architect at Continuous Computing, where he was responsible for the company’s upSuite line of continuous-availability and real-time file-replication middleware. Earlier, at AT&T Bell Labs, Tom designed numbering, routing and call-detail recording plans for the AT&T long distance network, and led the development team that created the first AT&T core network component based on commercial off-the-shelf computer technology. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of London in addition to two US patents and 11 patents pending.
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About Analog Analytics, Continuous Computing, StoryCloud, Inc: StoryCloud is the leading provider of low cost deposition reporting and legal video services.
Jarrod Cuzens
Co-Founder & CTO of Empyr
Jarrod Cuzens is Chief Architect at Figg.
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About Empyr, Empyr, Figg: Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publisher.
