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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 VP’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Sriram Krishnan
SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships of HeadSpin
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
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Imran Haque
VP Data Science of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Imran focuses his research on developing computational methods to go beyond brute empiricism in biology and medicine.He earned a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where his research on large-scale machine learning systems for drug discovery was co-advised by Vijay Pande and Daphne Koller.Following his PhD, Imran served for over five years in roles of increasing responsibility at Counsyl (now Myriad Women’s Health). As VP, Scientific Affairs, he led a research program in both clinical development, analyzing cohorts of hundreds of thousands of individuals to make discoveries in medical and population genetics; and in technology development, designing assays leveraging the ability to customize both chemistry and computation. Subsequently, he was the first chief scientific officer at Freenome, where he built and led an R&D team spanning molecular biology, computational biology, and machine learning to develop non-invasive blood-based screening protocols for early cancer detection.
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About Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a digital biology company, developing a drug discovery platform and pipeline with machine learning.
Brandon Pearce
Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software of Relativity Space
Brandon Pearce is the Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software at Relativity Space.
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About Relativity Space: Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
Tao Ma
VP of Language Technology Group 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
Dave Lehman
EVP, Commercial Business Unit of Yext
Dave Lehman is the senior vice president of sales at [Campaign Monitor](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campaign-monitor#/entity). Previously, he held the same position at [Captora](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/captora#/entity). Before joining Captora, Lehman was employed at [Salesforce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/salesforce#/entity), Puresense Environmental, and [Autonomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autonomy#/entity). Lehman obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit#/entity). He lives in San Mateo, California, United States.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Duane Forrester
VP, Industry Insights of Yext
Duane is the VP, Industry Insights at Yext. He was the VP, Organic Search Operations with Bruce Clay, Inc, one of the oldest digital marketing agencies in the country. Prior to moving to BCI, he was a Sr. Product Manager responsible for Bing’s Webmaster Program. Previously, he was an in-house SEM running the SEO program for MSN in the US & Americas. He’s also the founding co-chair of SEMPO’s In-House SEM Committee, was formerly on the Board of Directors for SEMPO and is the author of two books: How To Make Money With Your Blog & Turn Clicks Into Customers. Duane was a moderator at www.searchengineforums.com and maintains his own blog at www.theonlinemarketingguy.com. He’s written for publications ranging from SearchEngineLand and DuctTape Marketing, to Entrepreneur Magazine, the New York Times and Inc. He actively advises startups and large corporations, and even spent time advising the staff who maintain the White House’s websites.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Francisco Meza
VP of Engineering of Evisort
Francisco Meza is the VP of engineering at Evisort.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Hans Guntren
Vice President, Product Design of C3 AI
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Henrik Ohlsson
Vice President, Data Science of C3 AI
Henrik Ohlsson is VP of data science at C3.ai. He has deep knowledge in machine learning, time series analysis, deep learning, and its applications. Henrik is also an assistant professor at Linkoping University in Sweden, and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has both a Master of Science in electrical engineering and applied physics, and a Ph.D. in automatic control from Linkoping University.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Majid Emami
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
James Hom
Co-Founder & VP Products of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Amir Arbabi
VP Business Development of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Allen Gruber
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Board Member of Brain Corp
Allen Gruber is a neuroscientist, physician, and founder of several successful technology companies. In 1993, Gruber co-founded INTERVU, Inc, a streaming video provider, which went public and was sold to Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: AKAM) for $2.8 billion. He founded Kintera, Inc., in 1999, and later served as Executive Vice President in charge of Engineering for Kintera, Inc., an online fundraising and marketing platform for nonprofit organizations. Kintera reached a market capitalization of $500 million and was sold to Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB). Gruber graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biochemistry and also with an MD. He attended Washington University for clinical and research training and was on the faculty of the University of Texas. Gruber was a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Neural Computation at UCSD in 2007. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the Society for Neuroscience, and IEEE.
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About Brain Corp, Intheon: Brain Corp develops core technology for the robotics industry.
Michael Cantalino
VP of Recruiting & Culture of Focal Systems
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About Focal Systems: Automate and optimize retail through the use of deep learning computer vision. With focalOS, Focal provides the operating system of retail.
Can Ozdoruk
VP Marketing of Netomi
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Anant Verma
VP Engineering of Netomi
Engineering leader with expertise in software development and engineering management. I have personally managed and built many successful products that the customers love and built many happy teams on the way. I value principles such as simplicity, agility, building it right the first time and built in quality. Above all, I value individuals and how to draw on individuals’ strengths to build highly motivated, well-performing and results driven teams. I am a technology enthusiast and derive great pleasure in learning new technologies and skills. Expertise: People and technology management, Software delivery, Distributed Systems, Full-stack cloud based multi-tenant software, Data Analytics, Salesforce.com CRM and force.com platform.
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About Hired, Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Assaf Barnir
VP Customer Success of Netomi
Startups: eMeter, Zendesk, PubNub; Earlier: Amdocs, IAF, IBM
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About Netomi: An AI-first customer service platform that enables companies to deliver the highest quality customer experiences.
Mike Madden
VP of Demand Generation of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Yoav Ben Shushan
VP Strategic Partnerships of Skyline AI
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About Homrun, J-Ventures, Skyline AI, Soma Capital: Skyline is a real estate technology platform that connects accredited global investors to US real estate opportunities.
Chang Huang
Co-Founder & VP of Algorithm of Horizon Robotics
Chang Huang was Principle Scientist and Architect (T10) at Baidu, one of core leaders in founding IDL. He is one of the top researcher in computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition and information globally. As a renowned deep learning expert in both industry and academia, he has over 4400 citations and owns 6 US patents. The face recognition system he developed was adopted by a wide range of digital cameras (80 percent of the market) and image management applications including Apple’s iPhoto. At Baidu, he led the image technology team at IDL launched multiple important products including a full-web face search engine, similar image search, text recognition in natural scenes, mobile image search, image smart match, etc. Prior to Baidu, Dr. Huang served as a researcher at the University of Southern California and NEC Labs America. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, where he received many awards including MSRA Fellowship of 2006, Tsinghua’s Excellent PhD Thesis Award of 2007, Beijing’s Excellent PhD Thesis Award of 2007, etc. Dr. He also won the 2012 1st Excellent Research Achievement Award with his project “Theory and Methods of Geometrical Computation in Visual Media” and participated in China’s 973 Plan project “3D-Space Oriented Theory and Methods of Information Processing of Internet Information in Chinese.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Ming Yang
Co-Founder & VP, Software of Horizon Robotics
Ming Yang is one of the founding members of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) and a former senior researcher at NEC Labs America. Dr. Yang is a well-recognized researcher in computer vision and machine learning. His research interests include object tracking, face recognition, massive image retrieval and multimedia content analysis. Dr. Yang owns 14 US patents, and has over 20 publications in top conferences like CVPR and ICCV and 8 publications in the top international journal T-PAMI with more than 5300 citations. During his tenure at Facebook, Dr. Yang led the deep learning research project “Deep Face”, which had a significant impact in the deep learning research community and got widely reported by various media including Science Magazine, MIT Tech Review and Forbes. Dr. Yang has served as a member of the program committee for multiple top international conferences including CVPR, ICCV, NIPS and ACMMM. He has also been a reviewer for several top international journals including T-PAMI, IJCV and T-IP. As the leader of the NEC-UIUC team, Dr. Yang and his team achieved the best result in the TRECVid 2008 and 2009 Event Detection Evaluation. He was also a member of the NEC team to win the 1st place in the ImageNet 2010 Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. Moreover, Dr. Yang is the owner of 14 US patents. Dr. Ming Yang received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Annie Tao
Co-Founder & VP, Operations of Horizon Robotics
Annie Tao has extensive experiences in top-notch technology and internet companies globally, with in-depth strategic thinking and analytic capabilities of the industry in both US and China. Prior to Horizon Robotics, she worked in Google Sales group at Silicon Valley and Baidu in both US lab and China. She led a number of global projects at Google, including product search operations optimization and key payment product operations at launches. TAO received Master’s Degree in Marketing from Northwestern University，Chicago, and was exchanged to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania during undergraduate.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Michael Liou
VP Strategy & Growth of Chooch AI
I lead Strategy & Growth at Chooch AI, an end-to-end visual artificial intelligence platform. Chooch AI provides fast and accurate computer vision training, image, object and process recognition for retail, media, advertising, healthcare, aviation and security industries. Chooch AI offers an easy-to-deploy API and dashboard for AIoT and Cloud AI. Try it free via Chooch.AI/demo and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/chooch-ai/ Prior to joining Chooch AI, I have been an active early stage investor in NY, LA, and the Bay Area focused on FinTech, consumer, SaaS, and healthcare having made over 100 investments
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Jeffrey Goldsmith
VP Marketing of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Eric Johnson
EVP and CIO of Momentive
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Jon Cohen
Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Business Development of Momentive
Jon joined SurveyMonkey in January 2014. He brings years of research and data expertise to the company’s portfolio of products and solutions, as well as strategic direction for future innovations. Previously, he was Vice President of Research at the Pew Research Center. As Director of Polling and Polling Editor, he also led The Washington Post’s polling operation through two presidential campaigns and four congressional cycles, as well as numerous gubernatorial and mayoral elections. Prior to the Post, he was a polling expert at ABC News and the Public Policy Institute of California. He is an active member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and previously served on AAPOR’s Executive Council, as well as the president of its Pacific Chapter, PAPOR. Jon earned an MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Raj Gossain
SVP Product of Alation
Raj Gossain is Vice President of Products at ClearSlide, Inc. since December 2014. Previously, Raj was Vice President of Products for Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group (CCATG) and was responsible for product strategy, planning and execution for Cisco’s cloud collaboration applications portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Raj was Vice President of Product Marketing for Yahoo!’s Communications and Communities properties. Raj earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Alation: Alation offers a machine learning data catalog to help people find, understand, and trust data across their organizations.
Oliver Nicholas
VP of Engineering of Nana Academy
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About Nana Academy: Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby
Co-Founder & VP Operations of AKASA
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Operations at Alpha Health.
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About AKASA: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Chris Taylor
Vice President Global Sales Performance of Databricks
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About Databricks, Successful Workplace: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering of Databricks
Patrick Wendell is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Databricks.
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Nadim Hossain
VP, Product Management of Databricks
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Ravi Suryanarayan
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Aviso
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About Aviso: AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Mandy Wen
Vice President of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
Greg Howard
VP of Marketing of Vivun
Greg Howard serves as the VP of Marketing at Vivun. He was the former VP of Marketing for Risk I/O. Prior to Risk I/O, Greg was VP of Marketing for Grand Rounds, a fast-growth healthcare IT company. Before that, he ran marketing at AppDynamics where he helped the company grow to a $100 million run rate and become a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in only a few year’s time. Greg also oversaw the marketing team at HR outsourcing provider TriNet. Greg has a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University and a B.A. from UC Davis.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Jonathan Ross
VP of Sales of Vivun
Jon Ross has been in Software as a Service (SaaS) his whole career. He saw the shift to the cloud first hand in the marketing automation space from 2008-2010. Seeing the need to monetize on subscriptions, he moved to Zuora the leader in subscription management and billing. In his time at Zuora (NYSE: ZUO), he went from being the top AE to being the VP of North American Commercial Sales as the company grew from 5M to 180M in revenue. Currently is the Head of Global Sales at Vivun, the first platform for Presales Engineers.
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Matt Chappell
SVP Sales of Legion Technologies
Proven revenue leader with a track record of building and leading high performing commercial organizations across companies ranging in stage from startups to publicly traded multinationals. Background spans Sales and Business Development functions within the Technology and Financial Services sectors. Matt started his career at J.P. Morgan before entering the world of emerging technologies. He holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and English from Wake Forest University.
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About JP Morgan, Legion Technologies: Legion Technologies features an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement.
Michael Cichon
VP Digital & Content Marketing of Agari
Michael Cichon is a Silicon Valley-based marketing exec with specialties in brand strategy, digital marketing, content marketing and product marketing. He currently serves as CMO for 1Kosmos. Previously he has served as VP of Digital and Content Marketing at Agari and at ThreatMetrix and has held director-level roles with responsibilities for demand generation, sales enablement, event management, press relations and branding at companies including VMWare, KANA Software (Verint), Arena Solutions, Ketera (Deem), Aspect Development (I2) and Oracle. Combined he has over 20 years of experience helping b2b technology companies in various aspects of go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. Mike is a graduate of Purdue University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math / Computer Science.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID, Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sheryl Hawk
VP of Customer Success of Agari
Sheryl Hawk is Agari’s VP of Customer Success and is responsible for driving a customer centric strategy and initiatives across the company, Sheryl’s organization is responsible for managing renewal and upsell revenue for Agari as well as all customer health, adoption activities, and advocacy initiatives. She has over 25 years of experience in leading teams responsible for the customer journey both pre and post sales. Most recently, Sheryl led Customer Success at WhiteHat Security where she transformed the Customer Success team, bringing all post sales customer facing functions under the customer success umbrella. Prior to her role at WhiteHat, Sheryl spent 4 years as SVP Customer Success at Conversica, an AI sales enablement company where she built and grew the customer success function. Prior to Conversica she held VP Sales and Success roles at various ecommerce technology companies. Sheryl has a degree in Marketing from CSU Fresno, enjoys mentoring CSMs and trying new recipes.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sabina Knotter-Finney
VP of Business Operations of Agari
Sabina Knotter-Finney is VP of Business Operations at Agari, where she is responsible for leading sales operations and building the system infrastructure for all business units. Prior to Agari, Knotter-Finney worked in business operations at MongoDB and in product management at Oracle.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Seth Knox
Vice President of Marketing of Agari
Seth helps customers around the world to understand new, internet scale, data driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks. He keeps tabs on the emails threat landscape and shares that with the industry analysts, press and IT Security professionals.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Jason Turpin
VP of Product of Observe.AI
Jason Turpin is the senior director of product management at Observe.AI.
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About Observe.AI: Observe.AI is an Intelligent Workforce Platform that helps teams improve CX and agent performance.
Malaikannan Sankarasubbu
VP, AI Research of Saama
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Utkarsh Contractor
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Aisera
Utkarsh Contractor is the Director of AI at Aisera, where he leads the data science team working on machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Vision. He is also pursuing his graduate degree at Stanford University, focussing his research and experiments on computer vision, using CNNs to analyze surveillance scene imagery and footages. Utkarsh has a decade of industry experience in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning working at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs.
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About Aisera: Aisera provides AI-driven service solution that automates operations and support for IT, human resources, sales, and customer service.
Tiffany Riley
VP Marketing of Kitman Labs
Tiffany Riley is the vice president of marketing at Kitman Labs.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Chris Wirth
Vice President, Marketing of AMP Robotics
Chris Wirth is the vice president of marketing at AMP Robotics.
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About AMP Robotics: AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Subutai Ahmad
VP of Research of Numenta
Subutai brings experience across real time systems, computer vision and learning to Numenta. He has previously served as VP Engineering at YesVideo, Inc. where he helped grow the company from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. In 1997, Subutai co- founded ePlanet Interactive, a spin-off from Interval Research. ePlanet developed the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers. He has served as a key researcher at Interval Research. Subutai holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While pursing his Ph.D, Subutai completed a thesis on computational neuroscience models of visual attention.
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About Numenta: Leading the new era of machine intelligence
Brian Li
VP Business Operations of Mezi
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About Mezi: Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24×7, over messaging.
Dongyan Wang
VP AI Transformation of Landing AI
Dongyan Wang is currently the VP AI Transformation at Landing AI, a company founded by Andrew Ng to empower companies with artificial intelligence. Prior to Landing AI, He served as senior executive for multiple Fortune Global 500 enterprises such as Midea Group, NetApp, and Cisco, leveraging artificial intelligence, data science and blockchain technologies to lead strategic enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. He has also served as the COO of Grand Intelligence, a technology consulting company, and Chief AI Officer of a Blockchain+AI startup. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds more than 10 granted US granted US patents, 10+ international patents, and 30+ pending patents.
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About Landing AI: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Ricardo Garcia
Vice President of Engineering of LeaseLock
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About LeaseLock: LeaseLock is an insurance technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits.
Milind Karnik
Executive Vice President of Elementary Robotics
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About Elementary Robotics: Elementary Robotics is a robotics startup that built a platform for applying machine learning to the logistics industries.
John H. Mack
EVP, Marketing of Opera Solutions
John Mack serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for Zementis, and is responsible for all strategic and operational aspects of the marketing function. In his role, he strives to help Zementis’ customers and business partners understand the full range of capabilities that Zementis technologies offer, successfully integrate these technologies into their businesses and generate the maximum possible value from accelerated, dynamic predictive analytics capabilities. John also oversees strategic business development relationships with Zementis’ channel and technology partners and supports joint go-to-market efforts in collaboration with them. John brings to Zementis many years of technology industry experience, as an industry advisor, business practitioner and investor. His technology domain experience encompasses big data analytics, enterprise networking solutions, cloud computing, mobility and “The Internet of Things”. Prior to starting with Zementis, John was a Partner (Managing Director) in Accenture’s Management Consulting organization, where he was responsible for managing the firm’s consulting relationships with several key technology-sector clients, shaping and driving initiatives to help them achieve their business objectives. Earlier in his postgraduate career, John worked in Accenture’s strategy consulting organization, focusing on corporate strategy, M&A and business operations initiatives for the wireless industry, and then expanding that scope over time to encompass the broader high-technology sector. His prior professional experience spans management consulting (Aptos LLC, The Parthenon Group, Deloitte Consulting), investment banking (Morgan Stanley), corporate roles at Honeywell Aerospace and Cisco Systems and military leadership roles as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. John earned his MBA from Duke University and his BA in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College. He is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Opera Solutions: Opera Solutions provides advanced analytics software solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from Big Data at scale.
Adam Kahn
VP, Fleet Business of NetraDyne
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About NetraDyne, NetraDyne: NetraDyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Steve Pham
Vice President of Clinical and Research Affairs of Eko Health
Steve Pham is a practicing emergency medicine physician, the head of medical and research affairs at Eko, and a new father. His passion is translating between digital and clinical insights.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Tyler Crouch
Co-Founder, VP of Mobile Engineering & Product Development of Eko Health
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Paul Arambul Jr.
VP & Sr Dir. of Business Development of Involve.ai
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About Involve.ai: involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Kate Whitcomb
VP of Revenue of Novi Connect
Kate is the VP of Revenue at Novi Connect, a groundbreaking data platform that enables retailers, brands and suppliers to manage and analyze their product portfolios against complex ingredient standards in real-time. Prior to Novi Connect, Kate has been an entrepreneur, investor, general manager and consultant across a variety of industries.
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About Novi Connect: Novi is a technology platform that uses AI to ingest proprietary chemical information from chemical manufacturers.
Dhiraj Mallick
Vice President of Engineering and Business Development of Cerebras Systems
Dhiraj Mallick serves as vice president of engineering and business development at Cerebras Systems. Prior to joining Cerebras, Mallick served as the VP of architecture and CTO of Intel’s data center group. Dhiraj holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Rochester.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
James Perry
VP, Business Development North America of ASTERRA
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About ASTERRA: Satellite-based Infrastructure Intelligence Providing data driven solutions for utilities, engineers, and municipalities
Saranyan Vigraham
VP of Engineering of Petuum
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About Petuum: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Mark Mavroudis
Vice President Operations of BootstrapLabs
Mark Mavroudis is VP Operations at BootstrapLabs, a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. Mark Mavroudis has held leadership roles in private and public companies managing complex businesses and rapid growth. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and was a technical contributor, writing systems and applications software, before moving into engineering management, product planning, business development and sales & marketing. Mark’s experience was developed at large corporations such as IBM, Siemens, and Xerox, and he was a founding member/senior manager at a successful startup company that went public. He has held other executive roles in early-stage startup companies.
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About BootstrapLabs: BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
Nate Ramanathan
Senior Vice President Operations of AEye
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Craig Warner
VP of Engineering of Rad AI
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About Rad AI: RadAI empowers radiologists for the future.
Brian Maples
VP/Head of Data Science of Prealize Health
Brian Maples leads the company’s development and execution of cutting edge machine learning methods applied to large and diverse member data sets. His work yields precise identification of members who are most at risk for as yet unidentified future high cost events. Prior to joining Prealize, Brian was a Data Scientist at Nuna Health, where he designed and developed machine learning and analytics products and capabilities in the healthcare space. He has also been the lead inventor at Ionian Technologies, a diagnostics startup that was subsequently acquired by Alere. While a PhD student at Stanford, Brian developed a machine learning method for large medical genetics data sets that is currently being privately licensed. Brian received both his PhD in Biomedical Informatics and MS in Statistics from Stanford University, and a BA in Science and Management from Claremont McKenna College.
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About Prealize Health: Prealize Health uses machine learning to transform healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Amy Wang
Co-founder and VP Systems of Cogniac
Amy Wang is the Co-Founder and VP of Systems at Cogniac.
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About Cogniac: Cogniac is an enterprise platform for Artificial Intelligence-grade visual observation.
Luc Dumont
SVP Business Development of MadHive
Luc Dumont joined MadHive as SVP Business Development in 2021. for more info: www.madhive.com
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About Dailymotion, MadHive, Orah, Yahoo, ZERØ: MadHive provides a unified video ad platform with a real-time AI powered by blockchain technology.
Rebecca Lerner
Executive Vice President at MadHive & MAD Network of MadHive
Rebecca Lerner is Executive Vice President at MAD Network, the first contextually-aware blockchain protocol enabling the future of advertising innovation with privacy by design. Anchored in strong cryptography and private edge computing, MAD removes unnecessary intermediaries and eliminates fraud while helping advertisers more effectively reach their consumer. In addition to her role at MAD, Rebecca serves as an advisor for innovative blockchain companies like Fr8 Network and Blockdaemon, and was previously a strategy consultant for companies like PayPal, eBay, and ADP. She has also served as the VP of Product Management at Wiredrive, and as a Product Marketing Lead at Magento. Rebecca has a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
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About MadHive: MadHive provides a unified video ad platform with a real-time AI powered by blockchain technology.
Michelle Tomasko
Co-Founder and VP System Architecture of Inorganic Intelligence
Michelle Tomasko currently works as Co-Founder and VP System Architecture at Inorganic Intelligence. She previously worked at Particle as Vice President Of Engineering.
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About Inorganic Intelligence: Celestial AI develops data center and edge AI computing solutions.
Heather A. Brown
Senior Vice President, Market Access & Reimbursement of HeartFlow
Dr. Brown brings 10 years of experience in advanced medical imaging product development and service. She has held leadership roles in multiple startups and drove the development of AAA stent graft and TAVR planning applications as well as novel methods of assessing cardiac wall mechanics. Dr. Brown developed the first Volumetric Medical Imaging college accredited program at Jefferson Community and Technical College in 2005. She holds six patents. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Tim Fonte
VP Customer Success of HeartFlow
Tim is start-up executive and engineer with experience from early-stage R&D through commercial operations. He has worked in the fields of healthcare, software, hardware, product design, and manufacturing. Tim is currently VP Customer Success at HeartFlow. He has co-founded a custom products company. He was a key individual in bringing two high-impact, award-winning, FDA-approved healthcare technologies from R&D to production and initial commercial use: first at Cameron Health and most recently as an early employee and leader at HeartFlow.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Min-Hank Ho
VP, Product Development of Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Dominik Facher
VP Product & Engineering of Chorus.ai
Dominik leads Product, Design and Engineering at Chorus.ai, a conversation intelligence company for sales teams. Previously, Dominik was a co-founder at Emplido (acq. by Experteer) and a consultant with Bain & Company’s technology practice. Dominik holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and Technical University of Munich and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Chorus.ai, Emplido: Chorus.ai is an AI conversation intelligence cloud platform for sales team that can transform conversations into data and insights.
Natalie Severino
VP, Marketing of Chorus.ai
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About Chorus.ai, High Alpha: Chorus.ai is an AI conversation intelligence cloud platform for sales team that can transform conversations into data and insights.
Al Brown
SVP, Engineering of Veritone
Al runs the engineering engines at Veritone including development, qa, data science and architecture. Al and team built Veritone aiWARE, the world’s first operating system for Artificial Intelligence, providing enterprises and government agencies with an extensible software infrastructure enabling fast-to-market AI deployments at scale. For the past 20 years, Al has been building technologies that excel in Artificial Intelligence, Content Analytics, Enterprise Content Management, and Business Process Management. While he led engineering teams for leading companies, such as FileNet and IBM and drove standard efforts including OASIS CMIS, Al is also a serial entrepreneur. Before joining Veritone, Al has founded OspreyData, a pioneer in Predictive Asset Maintenance using Artificial Intelligence.
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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.
Scott Bogdan
SVP, Operations 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.
Hetal Pandya
Co-Founder & VP of Marketing of Edison
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About Comity Designs, Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Noble Kuriakose
Vice President, Data Science of Edison
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About Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Kesava Neeli
VP of Platform Engineering of Edison
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About Edison, Edison, Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Jeff Pearsall
VP Product Design of Edison
Jeff Pearsall is an entrepreneur passionate about design and user experience. Most recently, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Flatter World Inc, an award winning mobile app development company with a focus on children’s educational technology. At Flatterworld, Jeff and the Flatterworld team won app of the year on the Edmodo platform and multiple design awards from the Children’s technology review. Jeff is also the Co-Founder of Squiber LLC, a bay area based design agency specializing in web design & development.
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About Alpine Design, Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Shuhao Zhang
VP of Engineering of Edison
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About Edison: Edison Software is a consumer technology company creating artificial intelligence to transform the way people communicate.
Jonathan Khazam
EVP Strategy and Business Development of Graphcore
Jonathan Khazam is a corporate vice president and general manager of the Visual and Parallel Computing Group at Intel Corporation. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for the development of Intel’s integrated processor graphics, including 3D, GPU programmability, media, and display technologies. Prior to his current position, Khazam was general manager of the Manageability and Middleware Division where he led development of manageability and security products such as Intel Data Center Manager (power management middleware for medium- and large-scale data centers) and the lightweight virtualization technology underpinning McAfee DeepSAFE Technology. Earlier, in 1999, he formed a new division to lead the development and commercialization of Intel software development products including award-winning Intel Compilers, VTune Performance Analyzers, threading tools, performance libraries, and binary translation technology. Khazam has been an ardent advocate for Intel’s software efforts for many years. He oversees the Intel Software Directors Council, a quality- and practices-focused roundtable of Intel software leaders. Khazam joined Intel in 1991 as a product manager responsible for mobile microprocessor marketing, design wins, and product planning. He subsequently led strategic planning and market development for the Pentium Processor family, including the highly successful MMX™ technology program. In 1996, he became marketing director for graphics with a focus on graphics APIs, instruction set extensions, and ecosystem enabling. Prior to joining Intel, Khazam held marketing and development positions at EIP Microwave and Hewlett-Packard. Khazam holds a B.S.E.E. from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. He has received two Intel Achievement Awards and holds two patents. Khazam is an independent director on the board of Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. and a member of the Audit Committee.
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About Graphcore, Integrated Silicon Solution: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Stephani Martin
VP People of Affinity
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About Affinity: Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM.
Corey Burke
VP Engineering of Dialpad
Corey is a software engineer at Switch, and also the lead cat herder of the company — just ask his cat Skittles. Previously, he was a lead test architect for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft and helped develop the networking stack for the underlying real-time operating system. Corey holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology where he created an early version of the Amazing Race there involving deciphering clues from obscure Simpsons episodes. When not churning out high-quality code and listening to house music, Corey is an avid outdoors enthusiast and gamer, so try to avoid him on ski slopes and Halo alike.
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Jim Palmer
VP AI Engineering of Dialpad
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Sachin Chawla
VP, Engineering of Trifacta
Sachin Chawla is the Vice President of Engineering at Skytree. His career as a leader in engineering and product management spans over 30 years. Sachin comes to Skytree with a breadth of knowledge from Informatica, Oracle, GoldenGate Software, Business Objects and ActaTechnology, a company he co-founded. Most recently, he was the SVP of Data Integration and Quality Products at Informatica where he was responsible for product management and development of Enterprise Data Integration, Data Quality, Cloud Data Integration, Complex Event Processing, B2B and Messaging products. Sachin holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Primer, Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Wei Zheng
Vice President of Product and Design of Trifacta
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Brian MacLeod
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development 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.
Lara Hashimoto
SVP – Chief Business Officer of SOPHiA GENETICS
Growing up in Canada, Lara developed an early interest in understanding the role of genetics in common diseases. This took her from studying the genetics of Multiple Sclerosis at the University of Western Ontario to joining the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, UK. Lara joined SOPHiA GENETICS in 2020, but first joined the industry 20 years ago as a Scientist at Roche Pharma based in Basel, Switzerland. She has held several positions spanning Pharma clinical drug development, business analytics, and strategic marketing in the global organization as well as sales and operational marketing positions in the Canadian affiliate. In 2009, Lara moved to Roche Molecular Diagnostics in California as the Lifecycle Leader responsible for the Genomics and Oncology IVD product portfolio and pipeline, launching several companion diagnostics globally. Lara then became the General Manager of Roche Diagnostics New Zealand Ltd where she grew sales above the market for 4 consecutive years. Returning to the Bay Area, Lara then joined the newly formed Roche Sequencing Solutions team where she was the VP responsible for Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing and the Nanopore Sequencer before being appointed Chief Commercial Officer.
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About SOPHiA GENETICS: SOPHiA GENETICS is a biotechnology firm that aims to support healthcare professionals by maximizing the power of data-driven medicine.
Robert Weideman
EVP & General Manager, Enterprise Division; Corporate Officer of Nuance Communications
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About Nuance Communications: Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Jason Cook
VP Sales & Customer Successs of SafeGraph
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About SafeGraph: SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI.
Ke Yin
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Engineering of Blaize
Ke Yin is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Blaize.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Richard Terrill
VP/Strategic Business Development of Blaize
Richard Terrill is the VP of Strategic Business Development at Blaize, formerly ThinCI.
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About Blaize: Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.
Bruce Morimoto
Vice President, Drug Development of Alto Neuroscience
Bruce Morimoto, PhD, brings over 25 years of industry experience in leading project teams in the development of innovative medicines, providing guidance in the design and execution of manufacturing, nonclinical, clinical and regulatory strategies with a therapeutic focus on CNS indications including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementias. Previously, Bruce held leadership roles at Cerecin, Alkahest, Celerion and Allon Therapeutics, and works closely as a scientific advisor to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, chairing one of their scientific review panels. Bruce started his career on the faculty in the Chemistry Department at Purdue University, where his independent research focused on neuronal signal transduction. Bruce earned his doctorate in biochemistry from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley.
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About Alto Neuroscience, Cerecin: Alto Neuroscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that creates precision medicines through its AI-driven biomarker platform.
Rutika Muchhala
VP, Technical Solutions, Customer Success & Product Strategy of Aible
SaaS go-to-market executive & venture-funded CEO with 10 years of experience growing revenue & scaling operations for startups, rapidly growing & large enterprises. Delivered multi-million dollar revenue by taking 13 first of their kind products to market, from vision to strategy, product, go-to-market, enterprise sales & operations. Built & managed 7 cross-functional teams including remote & globally distributed ones. Consulted for McKinsey, backed by Y Combinator, received a Harvard MBA & two EE degrees from IIT Bombay.
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About Aible, Scribe: Aible enables business people to create Real World AI that delivers measurable business impact in a way that’s simple, fast, and secure.
Amod Setlur
Co-Founder & VP of Products of Auryc
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About Auryc: Auryc’s visual intelligence platform empowers organizations to create exceptional customer journeys and increase revenue.
Jason Kehl
VP, Engineering of Vectra
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Claudia Virgilio
Global Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth of Skai Israel
Claudia Virgilio has more than 23 years of revenue-generating experience that includes expertise in SAAS and Technology with a focus on SEM, SEO, Social, eCommerce, Consulting and CRM/loyalty channels. Claudia has been at Kenshoo for over 8 years initially headed up sales efforts with notable deals including Expedia, Hilton, Walmart, Shutterfly, HP, and more. She also led the Agency Team Globally and was been instrumental in developing Kenshoo agency solutions and partnerships. Currently she focuses on Global Strategic Partnerships including Amazon, Oath a Verizon Company, SAP, IBM and new emerging partnerships. Prior to Kenshoo, Claudia lead West Coast Sales for Performics/DoubleClick/Google/Publicis for 7 years, managing a team and instrumental in building the Western region, including accounts like HP, Patagonia, Norm Thompson, Safeway, Wells Fargo, Walmart, Disney, Countrywide, Adidas and more. Claudia has also held sales positions at Xpedite, Netcentives, Creditland, and Naviant.
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About Skai Israel: Skai Israel is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, and omnichannel media activation services.
Stephen Tsuchiyama
Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Customer Success of FortressIQ
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About FortressIQ, Pavilion: FortressIQ defines security, insights, and governance in enterprise business automation and AI.
