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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 Director operating in the Art space. If you think a Director 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.
Luci Fonseca
Principal & Director of Operations of Base10 Partners
Luci Fonseca currently works as a Principal and Director of Operations at Base10 Partners. Previously, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
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About Base10 Partners: Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy.
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Mark Benyovszky
Director Artificial Intelligence of UiPath
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About UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
Lina Nilsson
Senior Director, Data Science Product of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Theresa Bui Revon
Senior Director Growth Marketing of ASAPP
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About ASAPP: Breakthroughs are born out of research and ASAPP is advancing AI to drive greater human productivity and automating the world’s workflows
Ian Van Every
Co-Founder & UK Managing Director of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Amir Ghodrati
Director of Market Insights of App Annie
Amir Ghodrati has been with App Annie since May 2013 and currently leads the Market Insights team. Previously, he worked in market research providing analysis services to digital media clients across a variety of industries, including search, advertising, and e-commerce. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from Duke University.
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About App Annie: App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platformthat delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.
Stefano Lindt
Senior Director of Alliances of C3 AI
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About C3 AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Kiran Lokeswarappa
Director of Machine Learning & Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Rainer Leeb
Senior Director, Growth of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Tad Buchanan
Director of Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia)
Mr. Buchanan co-founded the investment firm of Buchanan Investments, Inc. in 1998 with his father, Mike. Together, they have founded, invested in and raised equity and debt capital for numerous companies, including DM&E Railroad, Central Montana Resources, Opti Canada, White Oak Resources, AlphaClone, TabletCommand, Gensys Software, Tri Alpha Energy, OneSun Solar, and numerous other private companies. Prior to founding Buchanan Investments, Inc., Tad was an Executive Director at UBS Securities with primary responsibility for managing Asian equity sales and trading based in NY. He was also an equity analyst at UBS and W.I. Carr (Far East), Ltd. based in Hong Kong, with responsibility for covering financial services, software, industrial and energy companies in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Prior to joining W.I. Carr (Far East) Ltd., Tad was a credit analyst within the Corporate Lending Group of Wells Fargo Bank. He graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. in Economics and from Boston College with an M.B.A, International Finance. He currently serves on the boards of Central Montana Resources, AlphaClone, Tablet Command, and OneSun Solar. Tad is also a board observer of Tri Alpha Energy. He is married with three children, and is a Trustee of Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, CA.
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About Fabric Genomics (formerly Omicia): Global healthcare platform for genomics-driven precision medicine. Fabric’ proven AI algorithms power genomic insights.
Matar Haller
Director of Algorithmic AI of SparkBeyond
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About SparkBeyond: At SparkBeyond, we unleash AI for Business and Social impact
Mark Gorenberg
Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
Mark Gorenberg is a Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners, founding the firm in 2013. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Mark joined co-founders Ann Winblad and John Hummer as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners began investing our first fund in 1990. Prior to Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Mark was at Sun Microsystems where he managed emerging new media areas and was a member of the original SparcStation team. Over the last 20 years Mark has served as a board member for numerous successful Hummer Winblad start-ups, including Omniture (IPO and acquired by Adobe), AdForce (IPO and acquired by CMGI), NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Scopus Technologies (IPO and acquired by Siebel) and Crowdfactory (acquired by Marketo). Currently, he serves as a Director of Domino Data Lab, Domo, Eventboard, Follow Analytics, and InsideSales. In 2011, Mark was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a 21-person advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers (www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast). Mark is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, a member of the Steering Committee of Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the Leadership Board of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. In 2012, Mark also became a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Mark received a B.S.E.E. from MIT, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.
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About Domino Data Lab, Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Jocelyn Goldfein
Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
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About All Raise, Stanford University, Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Ash Fontana
Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
Ash started the money side of AngelList – the most successful startup investing platform in the world – managing $130M over more than 250 funds. There, he launched online investing, created the first startup ‘index fund’ and curated investment opportunities across 500,000 companies. He also ran special projects like AngelList’s expansion into Europe and the UK. Simultaneously, Ash led syndicates and angel investments in Canva, Mixmax and others. Ash previously co-founded Topguest, a Founders Fund-backed company that built customer analytics technology for companies like IHG, United and Caesars Entertainment. Topguest sold in an 8 figure transaction 18 months after the company was founded. He started his professional career at Macquarie Capital, where he was a top-ranked analyst in private equity, investment banking and equity research. Academically, he graduated with First Class honors in law and finance on five scholarships from the University of Sydney.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zetta Venture Partners: Zetta Venture Partners is the first fund focused on intelligent software.
Charlotte Bowell
Director of Operations of Vicarious
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About Vicarious: Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence.
Hugo Fozzati
Director, Business and Operations of AutoX
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
Richard Lim
Founder and Managing Director of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
Adalbert Wysocki
Sr. Director of Engineering of Legion Technologies
Adalbert Wysocki is the Sr. Director of Engineering at Legion Technologies.
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About Clearbon, Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Mike Jones
Senior Director of Product Management of Agari
Mike’s mandate is creating great products and growing the Agari Email Trust Network. Prior to Agari, Mike managed AOL’s Network Operations Center from 1997–2004. In 2005, Jones took responsibility for directing AOL’s Anti-Spam Operations and Postmaster. From 2005–2010, he helped drive the adoption of email authentication and reputation technologies at AOL and across the industry. Jones has represented AOL as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and other cross industry initiatives.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Karthik Raghunathan
Director of Research of MindMeld
Karthik Raghunathan is the Director of Machine Learning for Webex Intelligence, which is the team responsible for building machine learning-driven intelligent experiences across all of Cisco’s collaboration products. Karthik used to be the Director of Research at MindMeld, a leading AI company that powered conversational interfaces for some of the world’s largest retailers, media companies, government agencies, and automotive manufacturers. MindMeld was acquired by Cisco in May 2017. Karthik has more than 10 years of combined experience working at reputed academic and industry research labs on the problems of speech, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Prior to joining MindMeld, he was a Senior Scientist in the Microsoft AI & Research Group, where he worked on conversational interfaces such as the Cortana digital assistant and voice search on Bing and Xbox. Karthik holds an MS in Computer Science with Distinction in Research in Natural Language Processing from Stanford University. He was co-advised by professors Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, and his graduate research focused on the problems of Coreference Resolution, Spoken Dialogue Systems, and Statistical Machine Translation. Karthik is a co-inventor on two US patents and has publications in leading AI conferences such as EMNLP, SIGIR, and AAAI.
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About Cisco, MindMeld: MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces.
Konstantin Guericke
Member of the Board of Directors of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Konstantin Guericke is a Partner at Earlybird. He is based in Silicon Valley. Konstantin is Co – Founder of LinkedIn, where he has led marketing activities from launch to first six million members and profitability as Vice President of Marketing. Previously, he has been CEO of jaxtr (social communications start-up, over ten million registered users, purchased by SabSe Technologies). Konstantin has long-time entrepreneurial experience as founder of successful startups and he has helped established companies towards increased growth. Currently, he is Board member of several startups and Mentor of student entrepreneurs at Stanford University. Konstantin holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
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About : StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Jonathan Bullock
Co-Founder & Managing Director of LX
Jonathan Bullock is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of LX. He is involved in business advisory projects focused on the tech and investment sectors, including supporting numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, either directly or through their VCs, PE, or corporate investors. He holds a BA and MEng from Cambridge University in Engineering and Management.
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About LX: LX offers an AI-powered personality survey that promotes personal development for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Sivan Metzger
Managing Director, MLOps Business, DataRobot Inc. of DataRobot
Sivan Metzger is the General Manager, MLOps of DataRobot and he holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering and an Executive MBA, both from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About DataRobot, Skai Israel: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Hardika Narula
Director of Product Management of Involve.ai
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About Involve.ai: involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Krishna Parab
Director of Product Marketing of Automation Anywhere
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About Automation Anywhere: Automation Anywhere is an enterprise-grade, cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform.
Micah Collins
Director, Product Management of Facebook AI
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About Facebook AI: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Sarah Zapp
Director of Strategic Partnerships of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Antonio J. Viana
Non Executive Director of BrainChip
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About BrainChip: Leading provider of software and hardware accelerated solutions for Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Melissa Lee
Director of Community Relations of Bigfoot Biomedical
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About Bigfoot Biomedical: Bigfoot Biomedical is a medical device company changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes.
Lenny Tran
Director of Operations of Synapse Technology Corporation
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About Synapse Technology Corporation: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Huck Gee
Director of Art and Production of Superplastic
Huck Gee is an award-winning artist, designer, and toymaker. His artwork is exhibited in galleries and auction houses worldwide. Several of his designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Huck has been a driving force in the international art toy movement since 2002 and is widely praised for the epic toy worlds that he creates, including Skullhead, Gold Life & The Dapper Little Scoundrels, which are major themes of his artwork. Handcrafted limited edition art toys created by Huck sell out instantly to a global clientele. Huck regularly travels and speaks on international signing tours. His art & designs have been published in an ungodly number of books and magazines including I Am Plastic, Dot Dot Dash, ToyGiants, & This Is Not A Toy. Huck has collaborated with artists and brands including Hello Kitty, Marc Jacobs, Swatch, Nike, Kidrobot, Microsoft, & Peugeot. His acclaimed video game BattleTails was released in 2015. In 2018 Huck Gee launched Superplastic with Paul Budnitz. Huck is the Director of Art and Production. When not creating art or planning world domination, Huck Gee spends his time racing Subarus and building Legos with his kids. Not necessarily at the same time
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About Superplastic: Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company that creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation.
David Bishop Media
Board of Directors of Parrot Analytics
David Bishop is a visionary entertainment and digital media industry leader, adept at building customer-centric organizations to high levels of employee engagement and profits. David has a proud history of success anticipating market demands and launching new products to maximize revenue. He claims a substantial talent for devising solutions to complicated challenges. David Bishop is passionate about identifying and creating new distribution technologies and highly successful business models. He is articulate, analytical, and intuitive.
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About : Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
Jay Turcot
Director of Applied AI of Affectiva
Jay is VP of AI at Afeefctiva.
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About Affectiva, Affectiva: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
Daniel Wong
Director, Product Marketing of Veritone
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About Veritone: Veritone has created a future-proof AI platform that comprehends and transforms multiple forms of data to create actionable intelligence.
Victoria Rege
Director, Alliances & Strategic Partnerships of Graphcore
Victoria Rege is the Limited Partner at Air Street Capital.
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About Air Street Capital, Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Elizabeth Rose
Director of Marketing of Analytics Ventures
Elizabeth Rose is the VP of Marketing at Standards Hub.
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About 3MF Consortium, Analytics Ventures, Dynam.AI, Kazuhm, Open Mobile Alliance, Standards Hub: Analytics Ventures is a venture studio fund providing front-to-end infrastructure to ideate, form, launch, and fund new companies in AI
Mendel Chuang
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Founder Friendly Labs
Mendel graduated from MIT with two degrees and joined Google pre-IPO. During his 5 years at Google, he worked on a variety of projects including Google Desktop, Toolbar, Blogger, AdWords, and AdSense, where he won the Google Founders Award. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of a mobile startup and is now the Executive Director of the FFL Startup Accelerator in Palo Alto. He has given talks at Harvard Business School, MIT, South by Southwest, and NBC.
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About Founder Friendly Labs: Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals.
Samantha Quist
Co-Founder and Director of Founder Friendly Labs
Samantha Quist is the Co-Founder and Director at Founder Friendly Labs.
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About Founder Friendly Labs: Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals.
Robert Finocchio
Director, Audit Committee Chair of Nuance Communications
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About Nuance Communications, Santa Clara University: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Tyler Nelson
Director of Operations of Got It AI
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About Got It AI: Democratizing Conversational AI: TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training & Self Maintaining AI in the cloud
Julia Yrani
Director, Global Strategic Alliances of Synack
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
Russell Tillitt
Director, Market Research Operations of SimilarWeb
Mobile technologist Co-Author, J2ME & OpenMAX APIs VP Engineering, Beatnik; Jupiter Research Foundation MBA UC Berkeley, B.Sc. Mathematics, Univ Florida.
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Dana OMalley
Senior Director of Sales, West of LoopMe
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About LoopMe, Ranker: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Leonard Speiser
Board Director of The Level Hot Pantry
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About Horizon 3, Jones Lang LaSalle, Neuron.VC: Markov Corporation specializes in applications of Artificial Intelligence to solving real-world problems.
Jeffrey Kiske
Director of Engineering, Machine Learning of Ripcord
Jeff Kiske is the Director of Engineering and Machine Learning at Ripcord. Before that, he was the CEO and a co-founder of Engine ML. His expertise is in deep learning, with a focus on autonomous driving. Prior to starting Engine ML, Jeff was a machine learning engineer at Uber ATG and Otto, and a co-founder at drive.ai. Jeff holds an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Stanford and a BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Ripcord: Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering.
Kevin Appelbaum
Co-founder, CEO & Board Director of Better Therapeutics
Member of American College of Lifestyle Medicine & Co-founder, CEO & Board Director of Better Therapeutics.
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About Better Therapeutics, Confidential Digital Health Startup (funded): Better develops prescription software for treating cardiometabolic diseases.
Cheng Zou
Managing Director of Magia.ai
Cheng Zou founded and serves as Chief Technology Officer of Zuora Inc. Mr. Zou Co-founded BeyondWork Inc., in 1999 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Prior to this, Mr. Zou served a variety of software engineering and engineering management positions at Postini, Annuncio Software Inc., Remedy Corp., Oracle Corporation and Plexus Software. Mr. Zou is a veteran of several enterprise software companies with a track record of architecting and building highly reliable and scalable software products. At WebEx, he architected and led the implementation of its order-to-cash OSS system that manages order entry, contract management, order provisioning, rating and billing, and customer accounts. He obtained his M. S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, and a B. S. degree from Beijing University.
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About Magia.ai: Magia.ai is an AI start-up aimed at re-defining selling in the omni-channel retail era.
Evangelos Simoudis
Founder and Managing Director of Synapse Partners
Evangelos Simoudis is the Board Director of eXelate.He joined Trident Capital in 2005 as a Venture Partner and has been a Managing Director since 2007. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and Enterprise Software businesses. Prior to Trident, Evangelos spent 5 years as a partner at Apax Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm where he invested and served on the boards of early and mid-stage IT companies. At Apax he also chaired the firmâs IT advisory board. Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM. Evangelos’ current directorships include,DesiHits,Hip Digital,Host Analytics,PivotLink Software. Prior Directorships include,Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL)), Doppelganger (acquired by Hip Digital), Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM),Vidavee (acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) .Evangelos earned a PhD in Computer Science from Brandeis University.BS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About Synapse Partners: Synapse Partners invests in early-stage startups developing horizontal or vertical enterprise software AI applications.
Frederick Soo
Senior Director of Product and AI Solutions of Mythic
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About Mythic, Mythic: Mythic is an inference processor company that deploys artificial intelligence in any device.
Anita Lim
Senior Director, People & Talent of Mythic
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About Mythic, Mythic: Mythic is an inference processor company that deploys artificial intelligence in any device.
Greg Georgianna
Creative Director of SolveCity
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About SolveCity: SolveCity provides AI and HI for Intelligence search, Information Mapping and Collective Scientific Problem Solving.
Francis Ho
Managing Director of Walden Catalyst
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About Samsung Electronics, Walden Catalyst: Walden Catalyst provides early-stage investments and operational expertise in data, deep tech, AI, cloud, and digital biology.
Jessica Wisdom
Co-Founder and Director of People Science of Humu
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About Humu: Humu is a human resource company that affects work through science and machine learning.
Geoffrey Eng
Director, Customer Experience of Blooma
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About Blooma: Blooma is the leading digital underwriting platform powered by artificial intelligence for commercial real estate
Justin W. Clarke
Director of Vehicle Security of Cylance
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About Cylance, Cylance: Cylance is a global provider of cybersecurity products and services using A.I. and machine learning to solve security problems.
Daniel Zito
Co-Founder & Director of Engineering of StructionSite
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About StructionSite: StructionSite is a new category of construction software – Intelligent Project Tracking. Cameras and AI automate the tracking of work onsite
Vishal Singhania
Senior Director, Head of quid product managemnet of Quid
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About Quid: Quid powers human intuition with machine intelligence, enabling organizations to make decisions that matter.
Nick Arora
Director, Medical Information of xCures
Nick A. Arora is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor within emerging technologies and health. He is Director, Medical Information at xCures an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care. He also serves as Chief Health Advisor of Rymedi, a health/life sciences company improving the process of capturing, tracking & sharing data to expand markets and improve health & wellness. Previously, Nick has been Chief Business Development Officer at Solaster, a consumer-driven health ecosystem creating global interoperability of decentralized, distributed health applications and blockchains. He was a founding member and Chief Strategy Officer at LINKCHAIN, a blockchain-enabled supply chain company where he led key strategic initiatives including the company’s partnership with GoChain. Nick has also served as Chief Business Officer and Health Lead at BlockRake, a premier capital markets consulting firm. Nick has lectured on blockchain, supply chain and health at Stanford University and has been the Co-Host of Blockchain in Health Care SF, the largest blockchain health meetup organization in Silicon Valley. An Ivy League graduate from Yale University and former Medical Doctor (M.D.) Candidate, Nick’s research at Johns Hopkins University has been published in top scientific journals across the world. He has also advised healthcare organizations globally and founded multiple businesses, including CrankOut, a health tech company that was featured in Entrepreneur.
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About xCures: xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Robert Baesman
Sr. Director of Product Management of Highspot
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About Highspot: Highspot is an AI-fueled sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
Mustafa Alammar
Director Of Engineering of Pearl
Mustafa Alammar is the Director Of Engineering at Pearl. He is a full-stack engineer with a eye for standards, scalability, and maintainability.
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About Pearl: Pearl is a computer vision company focusing on solving challenging problems in the dental industry.
Amit Shalev
Director, Strategic Partnerships of Nexar
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About Nexar, Nexar: Nexar develops software to protect the user and their business against car crashes and road casualties.
Joshua Gallagher
Director of Software QA of Peaxy
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About Peaxy: Peaxy helps companies unlock the value of their industrial data.
Sonam Dabholkar
Director, Customer Success Operations of Gong
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About Autodesk, Gong: Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential.
Rebecca Kao
Director of Marketing of OmniSci
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About OmniSci: HEAVY.AI provides advanced analytics that empower time-sensitive, high-impact decisions with Big Data
Nate Soares
Executive Director of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Nate Soares is the executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a Berkeley research nonprofit focused on the challenge of making superhumanly capable AI systems robust and reliable. Nate first joined MIRI as a research fellow, during which time he was the primary author of the organization’s technical agenda. He has contributed to ongoing work in decision theory, game theory, algorithmic information theory, computational reflection, online machine learning, mathematical logic, and a number of other areas. Prior to working at MIRI, Nate worked as a software engineer at Google.
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About Machine Intelligence Research Institute: The MIRI is focused on developing the mathematical theory of trustworthy reasoning for advanced autonomous AI systems.
Andrew Howard
Senior Director of Sales – North America of Tuya
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About Tuya: Tuya is an IOT solutions provider that helps manufacturers develop their app and bring their product to market and at competitive prices.
Gino Aielli
Director of Strategic Partnerships of Drips.com
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About Drips.com: Drips.com features an AI engine that helps improve lead-to-call conversion and reduces overall lead gen costs.
Justin Andresen
Director, Sales & Partnerships of Drips.com
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About Drips.com: Drips.com features an AI engine that helps improve lead-to-call conversion and reduces overall lead gen costs.
Gabriel Rubinsky
Director of Product of Capio
Gabriel Rubinsky has more than 18 years of experience in product management, combining strategic and tactical growth of new ventures, building products for both the private venture-backed and publicly held companies. Throughout his career, he worked hands-on with engineering and product leaders to help build new products and services that create new customer values, in the marketplace, with sustainable business models. Gabriel lead multiple new product launches in markets worldwide from conception, definition, product market fit and development to delivery. Currently, Gabriel serves as Senior Manager of the New Product Innovation team at Panasonic North America and supports multiple market segments, including Consumer Electronics, Wearables, Healthcare, IoT, Smart Cities and Mobile solutions. Prior to Panasonic, Gabriel worked at Google, Motorola Mobility, Netopia (Farallon Computing), Vyyo, EDS and Renault Automobile. He has extensive background in the communications industry: Telco, Mobile and Cable with both HW and SW products. Gabriel graduated from UADE University (Argentina) with a BA and he continued his education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Ventures. He also attended the Stanford d.school – Design Thinking curriculum (Innovation & Design). He holds a U.S. patent on wireless communication and received multiple awards for his products. Gabriel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.
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About Capio, Google: Capio is developing an engine for human to machine speech technologies.
Tanausú Cerdeña
Director of Software Engineering of Directly
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About Directly: Directly offers AI-powered solutions to resolve customer issues with the right mix of automation and human support.
Huayan Wang
Director of Kuaishou Silicon Valley Lab of Kuaishou Technology
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About Kuaishou Technology: Kuaishou is an online video platform that allows its users to broadcast daily activities, habits, and more online.
Beatriz Almeida
Director, Customer Success Marketing of Evolv Technology
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About Evolv Technology: Evolv Technology, an AI-enabled touchless security screening system that uses digital sensors and artificial intelligence to detect threats.
Chris Bollerud
Director of Engineering of AppZen
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About AppZen: AppZen is an artificial intelligence platform for modern finance teams.
Bryan Lawlis
Board of Directors of Absci
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About Aradigm: Absci is the drug & target discovery company harnessing deep learning AI & synthetic biology to expand the therapeutic potential of proteins
Diego Ponce De Leon
Senior Director of Publisher Partnerships of Holler
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About Holler: Holler is a Conversational Media company, focused on the creation and delivery of content that helps peer-to-peer messages be effective.
Fang Yuan
Director of Baidu Ventures
Fang Yuan currently works as vice president at Baidu Ventures.
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About Baidu Ventures: Baidu Ventures aims to back artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality projects.
David Quigley
Director of Engineering of Vizzario
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About Vizzario: Using AI to Improve Human Computer Interactions
Frank Schneider
Director Product Management – SaaS of CalAmp
Frank Schneider is currently CalAmp’s Director of Product Management and is responsible for leading all corporate software product development initiatives. In addition to creating and executing the corporate strategy to transform the industrial internet of machines market place, Frank is integral to CalAmp’s efforts to partner programs that enable an ecosystem of unique enterprise solutions. Frank has worked in product management in a diverse array of companies ranging from Fortune 10 to startups over the past 15 years. He holds a B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University and an M.B.A. in Marketing & International Business from Santa Clara University.
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About CalAmp: CalAmp is a telematics pioneer leading transformation in a global connected economy.
Director, Business Development of CalAmp
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About CalAmp: CalAmp is a telematics pioneer leading transformation in a global connected economy.
Konrad Demkowicz
Art Director of Strike Social
Konrad Demkowicz is Art Director at Strike Social.
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About Strike Social: The global leader in AI for social advertising
Diane Morgan
Director of Finance of Strike Social
Diane Morgan is Director of Finance at Strike Social.
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About Strike Social: The global leader in AI for social advertising
Rui Liu
Director Of Engineering of NovuMind
Rui Liu is a director of engineering at Novumind Inc. He has recently worked on deep learning system and data pipeline. Before joining Novumind, he was a system software engineer at HP Vertica advanced R&D Lab, where he worked on Vertica query optimizer, storage engine, and Vertica/Spark integration. Previously, he was a software engineer at the data analytic infrastructure group of LinkedIn, where his responsibility was around building a computation engine for pan-LinkedIn data. Previously, he was postdoctoral research fellow at the database group of the University of Waterloo, building databases for cloud environment. Earlier, he was a researcher at HP Labs China, where his research area was to facilitate data intensive computations within and over database engines.
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About NovuMind: NovuMind is an artificial intelligence company based in Silicon Valley.
Alex Chan
Member Board Of Directors of DataNovo, Inc.
Cofounder at DataNovo, Inc.
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About : Licensing Intelligence and AI-Driven Prior Art Search and Patent Landscape for Patents
Michael Mikel
Member of the Board of Directors of Burning Man Project
An avid futurist with an interest in technology and social communities, Michael Mikel joined Burning Man in 1988 and initialized much of Burning Man’s progress over the years. In 1992 he drove the first art car to Burning Man, founded the Black Rock Rangers, and edited the first on-site newspaper. In 1995, he developed the logo design which has become the symbol of the Burning Man community. In 1997, he launched containerized storage and transport for the Burning Man festival with the acquisition of the first shipping container. In 2001 he visited Regional communities across the US during his Tour of America as an ambassador for Burning Man. In 2008, he managed the development of Burning Man’s presence in the virtual world of Second Life. Michael has also been involved with many San Francisco social, cultural and technology institutions. Michael was a founding member of San Francisco’s Cacophony Society, and also a crew member of the machine performance group, Survival Research Labs. During the 1970′s his Silicon Valley career began in the early days of the personal computer as an electro-mechanical systems engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor. During the early 1980s Michael was a consultant to Caltrans, doing research on intelligent freeway systems in Los Angeles. Branching into automated systems in the mid-1980s, he developed the first robotic assembly line for Apple Computer’s Fremont plant in 1986. In 1988 Michael was a co-founder of Jasmine Technology, the first technology company to be located within San Francisco’s city limits. As a content contributor and social catalyst, he was influential to many local technology startups, including Wired, Laughing Squid, Boing Boing and the Internet Archive.
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About : Facilitating and extending the culture that has issued from the Burning Man event into the larger world.
Jeffrey Grote
Ops Director of CarePredict
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About CarePredict: CarePredict is an AI Elder care platform that helps seniors live independently, economically and longer
Joey Yao
Creative Director of PrestigeXP
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About PrestigeXP: Machine learning eSports analytics platform that measures player performance and gives actionable insights to improve competitive skills.
Pran Haran
Director of Hardware Design of Gluon
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About Gluon: Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Deven Samant
Director – Enterprise Solutions and Head of Enterprise Data and Cloud Practice of Infostretch
Deven Samant is Director – Enterprise Solutions and Head of Enterprise Data and Cloud Practice at Infostretch, a technology solution partner helping enterprises in accelerating their Digital Initiatives with Quality Engineering, IoT Solutions and data analytics. Deven carries more than 18 years of IT experience in architecture and design coupled with product and project management experience of large-volume, high-performance cloud/SaaS solutions for Advance Analytics, Decision Management frameworks and Enterprise Applications. While working at different technical management positions with companies like NBCi, FICO, Risk Management Solutions (RMS), and Collective[i] in Silicon Valley, he has helped bring new software products to the market, and has acquired industry recognition in designing and development of multi-tenant, data ingestion and data analytical platforms employing Big Data and Data Warehouse Technologies.
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About Infostretch: Infostretch offers professional services powered by latest technologies like AI to help enterprises launch new digital initiatives faster.
Emily Wing
Director of Product of Tappan
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About Tappan: Where today’s best emerging artists meet their collectors.
Stu Pope
Principal, Creative Director of Ayzenberg Group
Stu Pope is one of the few advertising creative people who is as familiar with the inside of the Pentagon as he is with a creative brief. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, where he majored in Psychology, as well as Cal State Dominguez Hills, where he earned his MBA, Stu demonstrates daily that a well-furnished mind is integral to creating great advertising. Prior to joining Ayzenberg Group in 2000, he produced award-winning work at Grey and Lois/USA on accounts ranging from Disney, US West and Caesar’s Palace to Edison International and the California Lottery. Stu and his wife Noelle live with their two daughters in Sierra Madre.
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About Ayzenberg Group: Ayzenberg is a full-service advertising agency with a distinctly social and agile approach.
Chris Younger
Principal, Director of Strategy of Ayzenberg Group
Chris Younger offers more than 18 years of experience developing clients that require marketing and advertising support. As Director of Strategy at Ayzenberg Group, Chrisâ focus is on bringing to bear the agency’s advertising disciplines in developing comprehensive integrated campaigns. Prior to joining Ayzenberg, he was an account executive for Hamagami/Carroll, Inc. There, his responsibilities included corporate and product naming, annual reports, consumer packaging, marketing collateral and retail merchandising for clients in entertainment, consumer electronics, QSR, toys, healthcare and hardware. Prior to that he worked at Creative Solutions Group (CSG) as Vice President of Marketing and Sales, where he developed and managed retail merchandising campaigns for clients such as Coca-Cola, Havas Interactive, Lego Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Studios. Before CSG, Chris was with White Plus, working with the visual communications and publishing division as Director of Business Development on clients such as CN Biosciences, EarthLink Networks, Kenwood USA and Playmates Toys. Chris graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications.
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About Ayzenberg Group: Ayzenberg is a full-service advertising agency with a distinctly social and agile approach.
Vincent Juarez
Principal, Media Director of Ayzenberg Group
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About Ayzenberg Group: Ayzenberg is a full-service advertising agency with a distinctly social and agile approach.
Samantha Gorman
Co-Founder, Lead Narrative/Writer Co-Game Director of Tender Claws
Samantha Gorman is a writer, artist, curator, and educator. Her work combines text, cinema, games, virtual reality and scholarship about digital media. With Danny Cannizzaro, she founded the studio Tender Claws. Cannizzaro and Gorman’s first release as Tender Claws was the hybrid film/game/novel app PRY. PRY was selected by Apple as one of the 25 best apps of 2015 and was a Future of Storytelling Prize finalist, IGF finalist for “Excellence in Narrative” and has been showcased at film festivals, game festivals and book review sites. Tender Claws’ next project “Virtual, Virtual Reality” (VVR) draws on her seven years of experience in developing literary arts projects for Virtual Reality at Brown University’s CAVE VR studio. VVR recently won the 2017 Google Play Award for Best VR Experience. Upcoming Projects include an AR Pet Fish that uses computer vision to feed on people’s emotions and the world around it and a large scale VR immersive theater installation. Samantha holds an MFA from Brown University in Writing for Digital Media and has taught at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to running Tender Claws, Samantha is a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Practice specializing in critical practice-based research on Immersive Media and Creative Writing at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
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About Northeastern University, Tender Claws: TenderClaws is an art collective, production company, and digital press working at the intersection of art and technology.
Ahmad Takatkah
Director of Investments of KingsCrowd
Ahmad Takatkah is the Chief Investment Officer of KingsCrowd.
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About dCap, Inc., KingsCrowd: KingsCrowd is an online private market rating and analytics platform for equity crowdfunding research and rating service.
Mat Gruen
Senior Director Channels of Weka
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About Weka: WekaIO is a software company that provides a file system for AI, fintech, life sciences, and technical computing.
Martín Alcalá Rubí
Co-Founder & Executive Director (former CEO) of Tryolabs
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About Meitre, MonkeyLearn, Tryolabs: Tryolabs’ mission is to help companies build custom Machine Learning powered solutions to improve their KPIs.
Neil Alonzo
Managing Director / Owner of Vocal Visual
Managing Director / Owner at Vocal Visual
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About Photocrops, Theeoh, Vocal Visual: We are “fixers.” In the service of creatives. To help be a solution provider.
Andrew Yang
Senior Director of Hardware of Nervana
Andrew has more than 15 years of experience in semiconductor development and design at a variety of venture-backed startups and public companies including AMD, Sun Microsystems, and Cavium. He has successfully taped out multiple projects in areas ranging from high-end enterprise to consumer-grade equipment for applications in networking, computing, video compression, and video distribution. These projects have included analog/mixed-signal full custom IC design, ASIC, and FPGA-based products. Andrew was a Director at Cavium where he managed the ASIC design team and back-end implementation of Cavium’s consumer wireless video processor products.
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About Nervana: Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications.
