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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 Colorado based CEO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Katherine Wells
Founder, CEO of Serenity Engage
Katherine Wells is the Founder and CEO at Serenity Engage.
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About CodeBaby, Mavericks, Serenity Engage: Serenity Engage is a HIPAA-compliant messaging app platform for senior care.
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Nick Garvin
CEO of StackUp
Nick Garvin is CEO at StackUp.
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About Mobile TV Group, StackUp: Stackup is an Artificial Intelligent Patent Pending System that Measure & Report all online reading & learning done across the web.
Kenneth Tuchman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TTEC
Kenneth D. Tuchman sees the world from the customer’s perspective. In 1982, fed up with the way businesses were operating customer care as a burden and a cost center, he founded TeleTech to transform the way companies deliver the customer experience. With his innate understanding of the power of data and technology to connect customers directly with brands, Tuchman saw the customer experience revolution on the horizon and built a company to lead it. His perspective on the importance of the customer as a strategic asset fuels TeleTech’s culture of technology innovation and operational excellence. With a holistic approach that integrates strategy, process, technology, and execution capabilities, TeleTech helps its Global 1000 clients turn the complexities of customer care into a seamless competitive advantage that delivers customer loyalty and long-term sustainable economic growth.
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About TTEC: TTEC is one of the technology and services innovators that provides end-to-end, digital CX solutions.
Daniel Jablonsky
President and CEO of Maxar Technologies
Dan Jablonsky joined DigitalGlobe in 2012 and currently serves as our Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to DigitalGlobe, Dan was an attorney at Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck and led global legal teams while at Flextronics International LTD, a global multi-billion dollar technology supply chain company. Mr. Jablonsky holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from U.S. Naval Academy, a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Additionally, Mr. Jablonsky served as a Surface Warfare Officer and Nuclear Engineer in the U.S. Navy.
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About DigitalGlobe, DigitalGlobe, Maxar Technologies: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Mario Ciabarra
Founder & CEO of Quantum Metric
In 2015, Mario founded Quantum Metric to help organizations align with a single version of customer-defined and quantified truth. Previously founding and exiting an APM startup which solved where enterprise applications could be improved, Mario saw the natural next step was expanding organizational alignment around the entire product lifecycle.
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About Quantum Metric: Quantum Metric is a continuous product design platform that helps organizations build better products faster.
Caroline Creidenberg
CEO & Founder of Wedfuly
A graduate of computer science from the University of Denver, Caroline discovered the wedding world from the tech side (or lack thereof). In her early days, you could find Caroline barefoot, riding her pink two-wheeler down High Drive in Kansas City. At the time, you certainly would not have found her dreaming of weddings or white dresses. Caroline’s passion for being a boss and taking on any challenge head-on is what led her to Wedfuly. She saw the white space that the largely male-dominated tech sector did not, and now online weddings have become her passion. These days, you can find Caroline mountain biking off rocks (shoes and helmet on) and skiing down moguls in Colorado. And, from time to time, dreaming of weddings and white dresses.
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About Wedfuly: Wedfuly is making professional wedding planning accessible to all budgets and couples by bringing real, professional planners online.
Kaspars Dancis
Co-Founder & CEO of Whimsical
Kaspars Dancis is the Co-Founder & CEO at Whimsical.
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About Whimsical: Whimsical is a software company that develops tools for workplace collaboration.
David Boskovic
Founder & CEO of Flatfile
David Boskovic is the founder and CEO at Flatfile.
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About Flatfile: Flatfile is the premier data onboarding platform for businesses. Built for your customer, Flatfile is already trusted by hundreds of teams.
Chad Burmeister
Founder & CEO of ScaleX.ai
Chad Burmeister is Founder & CEO of ScaleX.ai and BDR.ai (a ScaleX Company). The thing Chas is most passionate about – inside sales! Chad was the founding Chapter President of the Silicon Valley AA-ISP Chapter, and has volunteered over the past seven years to help advance the profession of Inside Sales to the next level of professionalism and performance. Chad was voted Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professional by the AA-ISP 10 years in a row (2010 – 2019). Others describe Chad as high energy, high integrity and has an extremely high ability to execute. Chad is an author of three books including SalesHack – The Original 25 Sales Hacks, SalesHack 2, and ScaleX.ai – Multi-Channel Sales Acceleration powered by artificial intelligence.
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About BDR.ai, ScaleX.ai: Sales Acceleration as a Service, Powered by Artificial Intelligence
Andre Durand
Founder & CEO of Ping Identity
CEO Ping Identity NYSE:PING.
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About Identiverse, Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
David Cohen
Founder and CEO of Taekion
David A. Cohen is founder and Chairman of Taekion, a blockchain-based Cybersecurity company. He is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on Smart Systems Software platforms. In 2012, David was named as one of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the SmartGrid by Greentech Media. David was the founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered “the Grid Edge” and unlocked a multi-billion dollar SmartGrid market. David is founding Member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) which was instrumental in launching the vision for the SmartGrid industry. He wrote The Electrinet: A Communications Architecture for a Competitive Electric Power Industry. On June 13th, 2017, David was a member of the IOTA Foundation and the IOTA Token Cryptocurrency launch which broke all previous records by reaching a $1.7 Billion market cap on the first day of trading on the international exchange, Bitfinex as reported by Forbes. He also is advisor to several Cryptocurrency blockchain ventures (Wireline.io, FarmaTrust, Money Token, WePower, Patron, BandZ) and others. He is an Executive Advisor and early member of Hedera Hashgraph David has 24 years of management, software platform development, and business development experience for emerging energy technology companies. He has specialized in the areas of Decentralized Software Systems. David founded four start-up companies and has a track record in building, scaling, and selling innovative and profitable ventures. He has completed numerous joint ventures and partnerships in the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Australia, India, and Asia-Pac. David has developed and commercialized over 20 enterprise software products. He is an expert on decentralized software and control systems including AI-Based Analytics, Transactive Energy, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and Blockchain technology. David has presented at venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, Singularity University, and other global conference venues.
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About Taekion: Blockchain-based Cybersecurity Software
Roberto Ortiz
CEO and Co-Founder of Welcome
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About Welcome: Welcome creates jaw-dropping virtual events.
Jonathan Sawyer
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Xetawave
Jonathan Sawyer is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer/Chief Technology Officer at Xetawave. Jonathan has pushed the limits over a period of three decades in the design and development of new and innovative, industry-changing wireless technologies. He is renowned in his approach for always thinking out of the box and questioning conventional wisdom. Prior to XetaWave, Jonathan co-founded FreeWave Technologies in 1993. In addition to his responsibilities as CTO, he co-managed FreeWave. Jonathan designed the very first FHSS products which employed modulation, hopping speeds and over-the-air protocols which are still considered state of the art to this day. In his 17 years at FreeWave, he designed every radio and grew the company culminating with an investment by TA Associates of $113M in 2007. During the 3 years following the acquisition, Jonathan worked to expand the management and technical team of FreeWave to ensure its continued scalability and growth from its entrepreneurial roots. Prior to FreeWave, in 1986 and as co-founder of Inovonics, Jonathan developed a unique narrow pulse wireless technology to enable low power, unlicensed devices to achieve a range of miles versus feet, a first within the industry. This technology is still in use today. In 2005, Inovonics was sold to Roper Industries for over $45 million. In the late 1980s, while director of hardware engineering for Clinicom, Jonathan pioneered the first WIFI type network at 900 MHz for use in handheld computers within a hospital environment. Jonathan’s 900 MHz technology produced an aggregate bandwidth of over 15MB and extended the range of this technology to allow a single access point to provide wireless coverage across multiple floors within a hospital. During this time, he developed much of the Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) technologies and protocols used today. Jonathan received several patents for his work.
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About Xetawave: XetaWave is a wireless network equipment company providing data-centric wireless radios for communication networks.
Alan Curtis
CEO of RADAR
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About RADAR, Radar Relay: We build products for our next financial system
Eric Remer
President, CEO of PaySimple
Eric Remer is the Chief Executive Officer of EverCommerce. Prior to EverCommerce, Eric co-founded and served as CEO of PaySimple, where during his tenure he led its growth from a startup to $50M revenue company. Before PaySimple, Eric founded and served on the management teams of several startups, including the Conclave Group, a direct marketing services company, and I-Behavior, a leading behavioral targeting and database marketing organization. I-Behavior sold its online division, Acerno, to Akamai and its offline data division to the KBM Group. Eric began his career working in investment banking at Kidder, Peabody & Company, and has a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan. Eric is passionate about building growth-oriented companies with strong cultures that provide platforms for the personal and professional growth of their employees.
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About PaySimple: PaySimple provides a SaaS-based online payment solution that offers integrated invoicing and payment acceptance in one system.
Charles Corfield
President & CEO of nVoq
Charles Corfield has been in the technology sector for the last 25 years in both operational and investment roles. He has served at organizations from start-ups to public companies, including stints on audit and compensation committees. His interest in voice automation to speed desktop workflow grew out of the experiences from his portfolio companies BeVocal (now Nuance) and iBasis (now KPN). He was also an early investor in Silver Lake Partners, a leading technology buyout fund. He served as cofounder and chief technology officer of Frame Technology, which was acquired by Adobe. Mr. Corfield enjoys ultra-marathons, both races and fun runs, such as double crossings of the Grand Canyon and The White Rim Trail. He graduated summa cum laude in mathematics from Cambridge University, England, where he is an honorary fellow of St. Johns College.
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About nVoq: nVoq provides a cloud-based speech-to-text solution to improve workflow in communication and health care companies.
Michael Bauer
Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Brilliant Arc
Michael Bauer is the founder, CEO and principal consultant for Brilliant Arc. Working with companies such as MapQuest, Dex, Joltid (progenitor of Skype), Jabber, and European Directories since 1993, Michael and his teams built the first online mapping system, created one of the first online shopping systems, sold some of the first online advertising, built one of the first content management systems, and created some of the earliest online directories.
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About Brilliant Arc: Brilliant Arc is a knowledge-based software developer transforming data into knowledge to solve its users’ business problems.
Andrew Myers
Founder & CEO of RippleMatch
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About RippleMatch: RippleMatch is a platform for early career hiring that helps build diverse teams and hire the right talent virtually.
Keegan Peterson
Founder & CEO of Wurk
Keegan has a passion for helping organizations (large and small) improve the quality and quantity of their workforce by utilizing technology solutions. In particular, he love building strategies around attracting and retaining millennial workforces and consumers. Our world is evolving every day! How can your businesses evolve at a rate fast enough to maintain your competitive advantages? He states, “If we aren’t challenging our businesses with this question everyday, we will soon become irrelevant in our marketplace.” He is considered a thought-leader in the areas of: Highly Regulated Workforce management, Business analytics, Hiring software, Hiring processes, Learning tools, Employee training, Employee scheduling, Enterprise Sales
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About Wurk: Wurk is a provider of cannabis software and services to manage HR, time keeping, payroll, and scheduling.
Eran Gil
CEO of AllCloud
Eran Gil serves as the Chief Executive Officer at AllCloud. He also co-founded Cloud Sherpas in 2008 and worked as a Senior Vice President of Global Business Development in the same company.
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About AllCloud: AllCloud is a cloud solutions provider specializing in cloud stack, infrastructure, platform, and Software-as-a-Service.
Christopher Klein
Cofounder & CEO of Rachio
Chris Klein is the co-founder and CEO of Rachio, the leading smart sprinkler controller that leverages IoT technology to intelligently manage home irrigation.He has experience leading a number of product development initiatives. Products include commercial construction buildings, B2B and B2C software, and consumer hardware.Chris has a background in project management in the commercial construction space, product management and development of B2B software, server and client side software engineering, and project management of hardware development. He holds an MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business, and a BS from Ohio State University.
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About Rachio: Rachio is a software and hardware company that focuses on improving the water efficiency of homes.
Justin Custer
Founder & CEO of ChatLingual
Justin Custer is CEO & Founder at ChatLingual.
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About ChatLingual, University of Colorado Boulder: ChatLingual empowers every Advisor to be your Best Advisor
Michael Long
President & CEO of Arrow Electronics
Michael Long is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Arrow Electronics, Inc. since May 2009. Previously, Michael served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Arrow, with responsibility for all of the company’s operations and business units. Before that, Michael served as Senior Vice President at Arrow and President of the company’s Global Components business with responsibility for overseeing Arrow’s semiconductor, passive, electromechanical and connector products and services businesses worldwide. Michael has been with Arrow since 1991 when Arrow merged with Schweber Electronics, a company where he held various leadership roles from 1983 to 1990. In 1994, Michael was President, Capstone Electronics, an Arrow company, and from 1995 to 1999, he was President of Gates / Arrow Distributing. From 1998 to 2005, Long was President and Chief Operating Officer, Arrow North American Computer Products (now Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions). As a result of his success in running and growing this business, Long was named one of Computer Reseller News’ “Top 25 Executives” in 2002 and 2004. Long also served as president, North America and Asia/Pacific components. Michael is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global peer networking group. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of AmerisourceBergen. Michael is also on the Board of Directors for the Denver Zoo. Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin and attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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About Arrow Electronics: Arrow Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes electronic components for industrial and commercial sectors.
Greg Noble
Chief Executive Officer of MedWorxs
Kovo CEO Greg Noble has established a reputation as a leader in the medical Billing-as-a-Service, RCM and PM system fields, with over 20 years’ experience in revenue based transactional systems and medical software. As the Co-Founder of Medworxs, an international leader of cloud-based medical software solutions, Mr. Noble has been on the forefront of the US e-health transformation.
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About Kovo HealthTech Corporation, MedWorxs: MedWorxs is a privately-held, International leader in inpatient and ambulatory software solutions.
Matt Talbot
Co-Founder & CEO of GoSpotCheck
Matt leads Strategy, Finance, and Innovation and has a BS from Bucknell. He is a former corporate finance leader at Johnson & Johnson.
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About GoSpotCheck: GoSpotCheck develops web and mobile apps that help employees gather real-time retail intelligence information from the field.
Christian Vanek
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of SurveyGizmo
Christian Vanek is co-founder and chief executive officer of SurveyGizmo. As CEO, Mr. Vanek is principal of the data collection industry’s leading survey software company. He helps such businesses as FedEx, IBM, Microsoft, Bloomberg Television, GE, and ESPN overcome the challenges they face with organizational ad hoc research. He continues to provide solutions for companies to collect, centralize, and distribute data as a means of reaching informed business decisions. His strategic vision for the company is to establish SurveyGizmo’s rightful place as the leader in the survey software industry and drive the industry forward. SurveyGizmo, a 100% bootstrapped company, is proudly celebrating 10 years of service and over $13 Million in revenue. Under Mr. Vanek’s leadership, in 2016, SurveyGizmo was named Editor’s Choice for PC Magazine, and voted #1 in survey software satisfaction for the G2 Crowd’s Fall Grid Report. Prior to SurveyGizmo, Mr. Vanek first became interested in building software in 1995 during his year of service for AmeriCorps. While working in the homeless shelter there, he noticed a need for greater efficiency and built a software package to help manage clothing and service distribution. In 1997, Mr. Vanek joined the Digital Consulting Institute, automating processes for their in-house travel agency and marketing teams. He worked closely with the marketers there and developed a content management system for the company. In 1999, Mr. Vanek left DCI and began work on his own marketing automation software company, but the platform was ahead of its time and market. In 2002, Mr. Vanek started his consulting company, CVanek Studios, where he created and sold a co-registration brokerage software package. In 2005, after consulting for many marketers and market researchers who felt there was a large gap in the survey software industry, Mr. Vanek proceeded with working on what would become SurveyGizmo. He launched the company in 2006 with his business partner Scott McDaniel. Mr. Vanek is known for his perseverance, grit, immense creativity, and sense of humor. His consistent choice to invest in employee benefits while maintaining SurveyGizmo’s success reminds everyone that you can accomplish your business’s goals and still be a fantastic and ethical employer.
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About Alchemer, SurveyGizmo: SurveyGizmo is a powerful, online survey platform that empowers business professionals to make informed decisions.
Conor Keane
President & CEO of Spring Global
Conor Keane is the CEO of Spring Mobile Solutions.
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About Spring Global: Spring Mobile Solutions offers cloud-based, out-of-the box mobile applications designed to optimize medium to large field force operations.
Paul Berberian
CEO of Sphero
Paul Berberianis the Founder & Board Director of Market Force Inc. Paul Berberian is an experienced chief executive and entrepreneur who has founded and run high-tech companies over the last 12 years. Berberian is the former CEO & Co – Founder of Raindance Communications, a web and phone conferencing services company acquired by West Corporation in 2006. Before founding Raindance, Berberian was Co – Founder & CEO of LINK-VTC, a video teleconferencing company, which was sold in 1995 to Frontier Communications. Prior to LINK-VTC, Berberian was Co – Owner of a plastic badge manufacturer in Long Beach CA. Berberian is a distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy.
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About Sphero: Sphero bridges the gap between the real world and the virtual world with its smartphone-controlled robots.
Brett Jurgens
Co-Founder, CEO of Notion
Brett Jurgens Co-Founded Loop Labs, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Brett Jurgens served as Director of Operations at Breakthrough Products, Inc. He learned to focus his eye and energy for details in the Private Placements Group at investment bank Piper Jaffray where he helped raise $20-$100 million for private companies in the consumer products, healthcare, technology, energy, clean tech, and finance industries.He serves as a Director of Loop Labs, Inc. Brett Jurgens is logistics liberator, warehousing warrior, and master of all things manufacturing.
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About Notion: Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home-owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions.
Craig Charlton
CEO of SugarCRM
As CEO, Craig Charlton leads all facets of the SugarCRM business, from setting our vision and strategic direction to making sure we’re executing in the best possible way on the ground every day. Craig has been building and running high-growth businesses for 25 years. Before joining SugarCRM he was CEO of Oildex – the financial automation software and services provider – where he drove growth and oversaw the company’s acquisition by Drillinginfo. Craig also served as CEO of Abila, the financial and CRM provider operating in the association, non-profit and government space. Abila, which was acquired by Community Brands, grew its revenues threefold and transformed its revenue base to a subscription-based (SaaS) model over a three-year period. Craig has also been senior vice president and general manager (Asia Pacific) for ERP provider Epicor Software Corporation, where he shaped the company’s regional strategy to deliver consistent revenue and profit growth.
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About Humanforce, SugarCRM: With Sugar, you let the platform do the work—no blind spots, no busy work, and no roadblocks.
Mat Vogels
Co-Founder and CEO of Zestful
Mat Vogels is a founder and CEO at Zestful, a platform that helps companies change the way they think about employee perks and rewards.
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About Zestful: Zestful is a platform for companies to reward their team with the products and services they care about most.
Jack Morrison
Co-Founder & CEO of Scythe Robotics
Jack Morrison is the Co-Founder & CEO at Scythe Robotics.
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About Scythe Robotics: Scythe Robotics is a robotics company that provides autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments.
George Avery
CEO of Native Rank
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About Affiliate.com, LocalSEO, Native Rank: Digital Agency: Digital Marketing and Advertising Platform and Intelligence Engine
Mark Geene
CEO & Co-Founder of Cloud Elements
Mark Geene brings more than 20 years of experience in consulting, sales and product management to his role as CEO and co-founder of Cloud Elements (founded in 2012). A serial entrepreneur, in the past six years Mark has been the CEO of two startups (Cloud Elements and ChannelInsight). Prior to this, he held executive positions at IBM, Oracle, Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Today Mark is a recognized figure in the startup community as a mentor and speaker at industry and trade events including Startup Week, Colorado Technology Association, Lean Startup and Cloud Foundry. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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About Cloud Elements: Cloud Elements is a developer of an API integration platform used to integrate and manage digital products and applications.
Ashim Banerjee
CEO of IDMission
Ashim Banerjee is the CEO at IDMission.
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About IDMission: IDMission is a cloud-based company offering services such as mobility, cloud computing, collaboration, and analytics for its users.
Sean McCreanor
Co-Founder & CEO of Assignar
Sean McCreanor is the CEO at Assignar.
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About Assignar: Assignar is a SaaS platform that helps construction contractors run their operations by improving productivity, efficiency and safety.
Ben Crookston
CEO & Founder of TrainHeroic
Ben Crookston is the Founder and CEO of Train Heroic. Prior to finding his home in the tech world, Ben ordered the Sampler off the career menu, teaching, coaching, and writing. He has an incredible family, and back squats 500 pounds A2G. When not training Heroic, Ben enjoys cooking, hiking, and AMRAPing premium television. He is a lucky dude that cherishes the privilege of providing coaches and athletes of all levels the tools they need to win in the gym.
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About TrainHeroic: The performance training platform that helps coaches and athletes win in the gym.
John Street
CEO, Chairman & Founder of Pax8
John Street is an award-winning entrepreneur in the telecommunications and Internet messaging industries who has built three businesses that garnered Inc. 500 status.Prior to founding Pax8 in 2012, he built MX Logic into the world’s largest independent provider of cloud-based email and web security. That company was acquired by McAfee, Inc., in 2009. John served as Chairman and CEO of USA.NET, Inc., and successfully raised over $100 million in private equity financing. At its peak, USA.NET managed more than 33 million mailboxes on behalf of its customers, including American Express, Palm, Netscape, Register.com and Goodyear. John also served as Chairman and CEO of Telephone Express, a provider of long distance services, and grew the company from startup to over $80 million in annual sales before selling it in 1997. This sale resulted in a payback to the original investment partners in excess of 1,200 times their original investment over a nine-year period. John has served on several boards and has been involved in a wide variety of other startups, ranging from fulfillment services to direct sales and marketing ventures. He has also served on many civic boards and as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. A longtime supporter of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra, John was executive producer for “Jumpin’ Jazz Kids – A Swinging Jungle Tale”, which was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award in the Best Children’s Album category. John has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and is a CPA.
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About Pax8: Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners.
Noel Goggin
CEO & Culture Leader of Conga
Noel Goggin is the CEO and Culture Leader at Conga.
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About Conga: Conga’s suite of solutions creates more efficient organizations by simplifying and automating data, documents, contracts and reporting.
Gary LaFever
CEO & General Counsel of Anonos
Solutions oriented futurist with a computer science and legal background; 30+ years of technical, legal and policy experience enable me to approach issues from multiple perspectives.
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About Anonos: Transform your data into a state-of-the-art asset, making secure, borderless innovation lawful.
Jon Nordmark
Co-Founder & CEO of Iterate.ai
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About Iterate.ai: AI-Powered Innovation Software Ecosystem for Large Enterprises
Andrew Fischer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Choozle
Andrew Fischer co-founded Choozle, Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Fischer headed sales and business development for a startup called Passenger.
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About Choozle: Choozle is an independent and self-service digital advertising software platform.
Eric Olden
Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Strata Identity
Eric Olden is the Executive Chairman & Founder of Symplified. Eric is a widely respected thought leader in identity management. He is also the visionary behind Symplified’s strategy to secure the cloud. Eric was the chief designer of the SinglePoint platform, Symplified’s identity services and The Trust Cloud on Amazon. His vision is to enable ubiquitous identity that enables all organizations, from the Fortune 500 to small or mid-sized businesses, to realize the potential of the cloud. Symplified was founded on the belief that in order to reach cloud-scale, identity must be made simple and be delivered as a utility service, and Eric has relentlessly pursued that goal since starting the company in 2007. Eric’s career in identity management began in 1995 when he founded Securant Technologies in San Francisco. Securant scaled from two guys and an idea to nearly 300 employees and hundreds of enterprise customers before its $140 million acquisition by RSA. As CTO of Securant, Eric pioneered the market for Web Access Management and User Provisioning with the industry leading ClearTrust product. A staunch believer in standards, Eric co-authored AuthXML with Darren Platt and negotiated its combination with Netegrity’s S2ML to create Oasis’ SAML standard. Eric has been published in several technical journals and is a regular speaker at industry events. He was awarded US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for web identity. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Brite Content, Strata Identity: Strata Identity helps companies using multiple clouds manage identity and security policies across the different cloud services.
Shawn Owen
Founder & CEO of Equa
Owen is a serial entrepreneur with experience in management and ownership of enterprise operations with a passion for systems development, business operations, product delivery, and client service. Shawn became involved with blockchain technology through his advocacy of bitcoin in early 2011. He frequently speaks and writes on Blockchain technology and digital currencies.
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About Equa: Equa is an immutable governance platform that scales organizations from formation to day-to-day governance.
Harris Morris
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Wazee Digital
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About Wazee Digital: Wazee Digital is a technology company enabling rights holders to manage their content in new ways.
Clark Woodward
CEO, Founder of RedZone
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About RedZone: RedZone provides solutions for real-time disaster monitoring, collaborative mapping, and smart hazard assessments.
Ari Kaufman
Chief Executive Officer of Spout
Ari Kaufman successfully identifies and pivots businesses towards underserved or non-dominated market opportunities. He has led digital media startups, turn-arounds, and early-stage growth companies for 20 years and has made a career out of successfully anticipating the future of digital marketing technology. Ari has been involved in multiple projects that have included raising capital and achieving successful exits that maximize shareholder value, including two initial public offerings (IPO). His visionary leadership is complimented by his ability to attract and hire strong teams that execute. In 2012 Ari engineered the management buy-out and corporate carve-out of Placeable with the financial support of a private equity investment partner and most recently sold that company to a strategic acquirer. As the President of InfoNow-LocationInsight, he automated local search management. As founder, he successfully sold the interactive lead-generating advertising firm ThinkAcquisition to a global strategic agency. As General Manager for LookSmart, he managed the paid search platform responsible for $250 million in revenue. As Chief Strategy Officer, he led PrecisionIR’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange. He introduced first-party ad serving while at MatchLogic and as a founder of Zacks.com, he pioneered the online advertising industry with the explosive growth of the first fully ad-supported web site in 1996. While at previous companies, Ari has committed himself to proactively developing winning cultures that promote ownership and accountability. His Own Your Shit mantra has received national notoriety and accolades from some of the most prestigious publications. Ari is considered a beacon for talent and true nurturer of people. As a New York transplant living in Denver, Colorado with his wife and three children, Ari studied Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. He is an incredibly well-trained dog owner, but not a veterinarian.
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About Spout, Techstars: Spout provides actionable data on public drinking. Spout crowd-sources real-time results about water consumed in the home.
Caleb Avery
CEO and Founder of Tilled
With experience in the payments industry for over a decade, Caleb Avery was often asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on either technology, user experience, or economics, he decided that he needed his own solution.
That led him to build Tilled and create PayFac-as-a-Service.
Caleb first started working in the payments industry while in college, co-founding a credit card processing independent sales organization, or ISO, with a few of his friends. Beginning with very traditional credit card processing customers including restaurants, salons, liquor stores and other brick and mortar businesses, Merchant Services Done Right later expanded into processing services for e-commerce businesses, software companies and now operates in 22+ states across the country.
Over the years, he also consulted for larger software companies processing anywhere from $100 million to over a billion in annual payments volume. These clients needed a payments expert to help them negotiate agreements, develop new pricing models, and maximize their revenue from credit card processing.
It was working with these businesses that he realized software companies who were looking to optimize their integrated payment processing solution were really looking for two key things. One, an instant digital sign-up experience for their customers. And two, to maximize the revenue they could earn.
Tilled’s revolutionary PayFac-as-a-Service platform allows software companies to enjoy all of the benefits of becoming a PayFac without any of the upfront investment or ongoing overheads, all while capturing the lion’s share of the economics.
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About Tilled: Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards.
With our suite of powerful financial tools and industry leading revenue sharing programs, Tilled will power the financial backend of the next generation of marketplaces, SAAS companies, and integrated software vendors allowing them to focus on their core product, not payments.
We enable these companies to enjoy all the benefits of a fully registered payment facilitator program without the upfront cost, hassle, or liability. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service. Plug in our easy to implement APIs and start making revenue from credit card processing today.
For far too long options like Stripe and Braintree have had a monopoly on the market, and have charged far too much for their services.
For B2B software companies looking for a better option that provides all of the benefits with none of the hassle, it’s time to Get Tilled and experience Payfac-as-a-Service.
Tyson Hartshorn
CEO of innate.ly
Technology innovator who specializes in leading globally diverse teams to deliver client-focused solutions coupled with white-glove support. He currently volunteers as a Lead Mentor with Exponential Impact (XI), a locally-based high-tech incubator, where he advises SaaS and a variety of other startups in the areas of product development, technical roadmapping, Agile processes, financial modeling, and fundraising. Following a successful 8-year career as a professional baseball player, Hartshorn earned his Bachelor’s from Colorado Technical University & Master’s from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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About innate.ly, innate.ly: innate.ly delivers intuitive, high-end registry & performance tracking SaaS applications that streamline & elevate equine sports.
Kelly Bianucci
Co-Founder & CEO of Impresa
Kelly is an experienced entrepreneur who has been involved in building new ventures across several industries. She most recently founded and led Discover Capital, a private equity firm which focused on investing in the self-service technology sector. Prior to that she worked directly for the Governor of Colorado to launch the Colorado Innovation Network as its appointed Executive Director. She has extensive experience developing and executing marketing, growth and innovation strategies for early-stage startups as well as Fortune 50 corporations. Kelly holds board, advisory, and investor roles for 10+ startups and non-profit organizations. She has a Kellogg MBA and a NYU Stern BS in Economics and Marketing.
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About Impresa: Impresa is an alternative lender focused on providing financing for digital kiosks and automated retail technology.
Anna Zervos
Co-Founder and CEO of Pao App
Anna Zervos is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pao App.
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About Pao App: Pao (say “pow”) is a mobile application service that helps you find hidden and share the world’s hidden gems.
Ed Hallen
Co-Founder and CEO of Team Engine
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About Klaviyo, Team Engine: Team Engine is a team management software platform that helps blue-collar work more efficiently.
Conor McCluskey
Co-Founder & CEO of BombBomb
Conor has more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. He co-founded a service company in the multi-family housing industry and grew its annual revenue from $50K to $1.7M. In just 4 years, he took a set of outdoor advertising accounts and grew revenue 660%. He is also an owner in a vineyard and winery called Proper Wines in Walla Walla, Washington where Proper was recently named Best New Winery by Seattle Mag. In addition, his passion and purpose is raising money for the development of small businesses and communities in Kenya.
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About BombBomb, Proper Wines: BombBomb software is helping to build better business relationships with video messaging.
Jacob Zax
Founder and CEO of MusiQuest
Jacob Zax is Founder and CEO @ Edify.
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About MusiQuest: MusiQuest is a developer of a musical application designed to help people discover their passion for music
Dennis McGuire
CEO of CodeBaby
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About CodeBaby: CodeBaby creates digitally-animated avatars that interact with the website’s audience.
Ryan Mathisen
CEO and Co-Founder of GloveBox
Ryan Mathisen currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of GloveBox.
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About GloveBox: GloveBox is a self-service platform for clients to manage their insurance documentation and transaction processes with ease.
Michael Whife
CEO & President of Selling Simplified
has a proven track record helping companies develop new markets and building a solid foundation for long-term growth. Prior to Selling Simplified, Michael became VP Sales at NetLine Corporation after the acquisition of his company All About Sales where he was the founder and CEO, a leading provider of pay-for-performance appointment setting services.
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About Selling Simplified: Selling Simplified is a provider of b2b demand generation solutions.
Roddy Richards
Founder & CEO of WestLink
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About EVENTSA, RescueID, Inc., Uru Sports, WestLink: Software development
John Gribbin
CEO of Curable
John Gribbin, co-founder and CEO of Curable.
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About Curable: Curable app delivers guided training to control chronic pain, such as back pain and migraines.
Hume Miller
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PaySchools
Hume Miller serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PaySchools at i3 Verticals, LLC. Prior to starting up PaySchools, Miller held a sales position for Retail Data Systems with a focus on restaurant point-of-sale. With a long history of POS experience, he also founded a restaurant consulting enterprise. Miller graduated from Regis College with a double major in finance/economics and business.
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About PaySchools: PaySchools is dedicated to providing best-in-class school management software to solve common school district pain points.
Frank Ricotta
CEO of burstIQ
Frank is an accomplished CEO and Impact Entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience. He is the CEO and co-founder of BurstIQ, a health-focused global network that connects businesses and people through the power of blockchain. The company’s big data blockchain platform enables true individual ownership and control of health data, sovereign identity services, granular permission-based data sharing and multi-dimensional regulatory governance frameworks. BurstIQ is the first blockchain company to deploy a HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant blockchain solution at enterprise scale, the first blockchain company to be listed as a preferred partner with the International Trade Association, and the first blockchain company to be accepted into the UN Global Compact. Frank’s career achievements span multiple industries, including Defense, Health Care, Cyber Security, AI, and Finance. He holds numerous patents in fields of cyber security and machine intelligence. Frank served in the U.S. Air Force and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy and a MBA from St. Mary’s University.
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About burstIQ: A health-focused enterprise enablement and global network that connects businesses and people through the power of blockchain.
Sam Gilliland
Chief Executive Officer of Cherwell Software
Sam Gilliland is CEO of Cherwell Software, setting the company’s strategic direction and driving its customer-first vision. Sam leads the company’s continued growth beyond IT Service Management (ITSM) and into new markets across the enterprise. Sam draws on his knowledge of and passion for technology to improve customer service experiences and make peoples’ lives easier. For nearly a decade, Sam led more than 10,000 employees in 60 countries as chairman and CEO of travel industry technology giant Sabre Corporation and Travelocity.com. Sam has served on the boards of Sabre Corporation and Travelocity.com, Brinks Home Security Holdings, Carlson, Inc., Gogo, Inc., Rackspace Hosting, Inc., Digital River, and BookingPal. Under U.S. President Barack Obama, Sam served on the President’s Management Advisory Board and on the Energy Security Leadership Council. He also served as chair of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. Sam holds an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas.
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About Cherwell Software: Cherwell improves service experiences across the entire organization through integrated, adaptable technology.
Brian Solano
Chief Executive Officer of EverCheck
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About CE Broker, EverCheck: License Verification Software-as-a-Service for healthcare organizations in the United States.
Howard Kaushansky
President & CEO of 30dB
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About 30dB, Lumos Solar: 30db provides opinion search on all topics of discussion from our analysis of social media
Doug Standley
CEO of niolabs
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About niolabs, Societal Innovation: Software that inspires human ingenuity. Specializing in IoT and AI innovation.
Fred Kneip
Chief Executive Officer of CyberGRX
As Chief Executive Officer, Fred is responsible for the overall company direction of CyberGRX. Prior to joining the company,Fred served in several senior management roles at Bridgewater Associates, including Head of Compliance and Head of Security. Before that, Fred was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., where he led the company’s Corporate Finance practice. Fred has also worked as an investor with two later-stage private equity investment firms. Fred holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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About CyberGRX: CyberGRX is a provider a global cyber risk exchange for its third-party cyber risk management program.
Steve Baker
President and CEO of Brandfolder
Steven Baker is currently the President and Chief Revenue Officer of Brandfolder. He previously served in executive sales roles in companies including Sitrion and Attain Technologies. Mr. Baker graduated from Tri-state University in 1998 with a B.A in marketing.
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About Brandfolder: Brandfolder is a digital asset management (DAM) platform for storing, distributing, and manipulating brand assets.
Stewart McGrath
CEO of Section
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About Section: Section is an Edge Compute Platform that enables engineers to run any workload, anywhere, underpinned by modern DevOps principles.
Jesse Lawrence
CEO of Boulder Bits
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About Boulder Bits, Watson Institute: Boulder Bits strives to add value to the Boulder community by validating solutions to real world problems spinning off scalable startups
Kyle Sherman
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Flowhub
Kyle Sherman is the Founder and CEO of Flowhub. A legalization advocate and entrepreneur, Kyle continually defines the company vision, strategy, and growth as Flowhub innovates the way cannabis retailers manage complex compliance mandates, supply chain data, sales transactions, and reporting.
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About Flowhub: Flowhub is a cannabis retail management platform for modern dispensaries.
Raphael Crawford-Marks
Founder and CEO of Bonusly
Raphael Crawford-Marks is the Founder and CEO of Bonusly, an enterprise platform that helps companies create a high-performance, high-engagement workplace. He is passionate about building products that help people connect with their work and each other in meaningful ways. Prior to founding Bonusly, Raphael was an early employee at several startups, a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and an instructor for Year Up. Raphael dropped out of high school to work as a software engineer in the mid-nineties, but did eventually earn his BA in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College, where he wrote his senior thesis on Artificial Intelligence.
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About Bonusly: Leading SaaS platform for employee recognition, rewards, and engagement.
Bob Hampe
Founder & President/CEO of Actall Corporation
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About Actall Corporation, Rakana Technologies, USA Hockey: Actall provides Real-Time Location (RTLS), sensing services, and specializes in complex and difficult RF environments.
Joni Klippert
CEO of StackHawk
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About StackHawk: STACKHAWK is a software company that offers IT services including website and software maintenance and detection of bugs.
Ryan Niemann
CEO of Skuid
I have a passion and a proven talent for transforming SaaS businesses and building global teams that deliver results. I lead and coach high performance private equity backed companies and their Senior Leadership teams. The portfolio companies I work with offer a broad range of SaaS solutions including CRM productivity, mobile efficiency, cloud optimization, security, and critical industry compliance. Having spent the last 20 years in the digital technology space, Ryan has worked at global and regional companies helping enterprise businesses and startups with digital transformations. In prior roles Ryan was the vice president and managing director at Avanade. For over ten years he focused on digital transformation and CRM solutions with Avanade’s enterprise customers around the world and was responsible for scaling a half-billion-dollar customer portfolio. His technical background spans cloud, CRM, mobility, analytics, and application development coupled with project and product management certifications. Having begun his career as a consultant, Ryan grew his career with roles in direct sales, delivery management, marketing, solution architect, channel development, P&L management, executive leadership, and board of director responsibilities. Ryan’s passion is people development, technology, and outdoor adventure. He enjoys helping people succeed and, in his spare time, he is always looking for new ways to explore the mountains of Colorado or a tropical reef.
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About Cirrus Insight, Skuid: Skuid is a no-code cloud platform for front-end rapid application development.
Michael Bamberger
Co-founder & CEO of Tetra Insights
Co-founder & CEO, Tetra Insights
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About Tetra Insights: Tetra Insights is a platform for enterprise user research and insights.
Heather Underwood
CEO of EvoEndo
Heather Underwood currently works as the CEO for EvoEndo. She previously worked at Stanford University as the Stanford Biodesign Fellow.
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About EvoEndo: EvoEndo develops systems that enable unsedated endoscopic procedures through a combination of sterile single-use.
Eddie Satterly
Co-Founder and CEO of DataNexus
Highly Motivated, Creative, and Versatile Executive with Comprehensive Experience in Information Technology Organizations. Committed to the Highest Levels of Professional Excellence including Life Long Learning and Building Productive Relationships with Colleagues and Clients. Leading large globally distributed teams of developers, product managers and architects. Distinctive Executive Qualifications: Considered a Thought Leader in the Big Data, Cloud & Security space and known for public presentations and lectures at Universities. Business-minded leader with a unique blend of technical knowledge, management expertise, corporate vision and the effective use of IT solutions to maximize business potential. Create and build key performance metrics, enable profitable growth, and push for operational excellence within the organizations he work with. Unique ability to comprehend complex business environments and drill down to specific requirements, issues and develop solutions based on cutting edge technical solutions. Managed $MM P&L, large globally diverse teams, technical and business cross-functional projects. Strong manager, leader, and team-player who can quickly adapt to, be accepted by, and interrelate with all levels from staff to C-level.
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About DataNexus: Data Nexus Open Source Software transparently handles configuration, data modeling, and routing of the data to the proper data store.
Scott Shilling
CEO, Co-Founder of mTusker
Scott Shilling has had a long and successful career in Information Technology. Initially, Scott was trained in the technical side of the IT industry, while also learning the management and leadership skills required for this intense field from EDS. Scott then spent 16 years with Perot Systems: honing his craft, moving from Technical Team Leader to Project Manager to Account Manager, even Sales. While at Perot Systems, Scott pioneered much of the offshore development best practices for Perot Systems which have been widely adopted across the industry. After Perot Systems, he took an ownership position in E5systems, which was subsequently purchased by Lionbridge. Since 2014, Scott has teamed up with his son and co-founder, Brad to create what has become WorkWeb. 32 years of experience is now zoned in on the development of the WorkWeb platform- Scott considers WorkWeb his best career achievement.
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About mTusker, WorkWeb: mTusker offers businesses with a software program that enables them to manage sales, data, and production.
Devon Tivona
Co-Founder and CEO of Pana
CEO & Co-founder at Native
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About Pana, Tivona & Haug: Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce.
Sarnen Steinbarth
Founder & CEO of TurboTenant
Sarnen Steinbarth is the Founder & CEO at TurboTenant.
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About Blue River Property Management, Focorent.com, Forbes Real Estate Council, Montana Property Education, TurboTenant: TurboTenant is a landlord and tenant software for online vacancy marketing, tenant screening, online rent payments, and rental applications.
Alex Raymond
Founder and CEO of Kapta
Alex Raymond is the founder and CEO at Kapta, an enterprise key account management platform.
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About Kapta: Kapta is a platform that provides key account management and consulting services.
Debra Mignola
Founder & CEO of DivorceHelp123
Founder & CEO at DivorceHelp123
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About DivorceHelp123: DivorceHelp123 helps Family Law firms easily collect Client data with Client App and create state-specific Court documents and reports
John Corbett
Co-Founder & CEO of aWhere
John Corbett is the Co-Founder & CEO at aWhere
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About aWhere: Awhere is a developer of a weather software that analyzes data and provides insights to help farmers plan their farming activities better.
Tim Beck
Founder, CEO & Chief Coach of SAASTEPS
Tim is the Founder + CEO, acting CRO of SaaSteps (CX Lead-to-Revenue Platform and Consulting Services Company) and CODEN (in stealth mode), both of which were started late-2017. With over 20+ years of experience in the start-up world, Tim has been seen as an outstanding sales expert and business mentor and believes that life is about the experiences you curate, the relationships you build, and paying the successes forward. Tim has used his expertise and connections to accelerate the growth of Selectica, Big Machines, and Apttus from the start-up stage to all [three] companies getting acquired. As Apttus being the most recent, he joined the team as an early employee (#13) and helped grow the company to over 1400 people in five years, which then sold for $1.5B. From this, Tim has built countless strategic relationships with key business leaders, has become a consulting confidant, has earned vendors’ trust and the trust of people around him. His colleagues call Tim a leader, a legend, and a great coach. As noted by the CTO of Apttus, Nathan Krishnan “Tim is one of the best solution oriented salesperson I had the pleasure of working with over my career in product engineering… I watched him master the art of enterprise selling to great effect.” Tim’s passionate belief in people and the work they do empowers him to find their best attributes and what excites them the most, to ultimately finding them a role in his companies where they will excel the furthest. This process, Tim believes, makes for the most successful teams, which great companies are built from.
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About SAASTEPS: e-Commerce, Quoting, Subscription, Billing, Invoicing, Renewals & Revenue Operations for Salesforce Customers
Gregg Heil
Founder & CEO of Encoding.com
Greggory founded Encoding.com in September 2008 and has led the team to its current position as the world’s largest and fastest video encoding cloud-based SaaS with thousands of clients and millions of encodes under its belt. Greggory leads the engineer team which developed, amongst other indutry firsts: Instant Encoding™ and Vid.ly – the Universal URL. Greggory brings over 15 years of demonstrated success in international product development and application hosting services. He began his technology career in 1996 at Silicon Valley’s first web hosting company, best.com where he productized and launched one of the industry’s first hosted e-commerce applications. In 2000, he joined Verio, Inc. as a senior product manager where he managed their international e-commerce product line. After an acquisition, he moved to Amsterdam to serve as the European Director of E-commerce for the Japanese telecom giant, NTT Communications. Most recently Greggory served as the Principal and founder of an interactive development agency, WEB11 Inc. where he has directed the development of numerous sophisticated social networks, broadband video channels, mobile applications and content management systems. Gregg studied General Science, Pre-Med at the University of Oregon from 1993-1997.
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About Encoding.com, Vidly: Encoding.com provides cloud media transcoding software to accelerate processing and optimize display on any device.
Tony Gorski
CEO and Founder of MyRounding
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About MyRounding: MyRounding software lets hospital executives, administrators, and care providers collect, measure, and monitor patient satisfaction.
Chris Poelma
CEO of BusyLife Software
Chris Poelma is an accomplished, forward-thinking technology entrepreneur with a wide range of skills and a track record of building innovative software solutions at venture backed private companies and successful public companies. Chris was one of the early founders of the SaaS industry through the invention of the Application Service Provider (ASP) concept. He has raised capital at all levels from Angel investments to IPO. He is the holder of several technology patents and has repeatedly delivered rapid growth and strong investment yield. Poelma is the CEO of QwikCart®, a software company offering comprehensive digital commerce solutions for the retail industry. The company’s goal is to deliver marketing leading digital commerce capabilities with POS integration, real-time inventory availability, cloud hosted services and world class mobile user interface design. The QwikCart® commerce platform can flexibly address the needs of every major retail vertical such as restaurants, grocery, specialty retail and health & nutrition. Chris previously served as CTO of Microsoft’s Operator Channel leading the Global Mobile Technology Platform development efforts and the Windows Mobility direction and managed the American Operator Partnerships. Prior to Microsoft, Chris was a COO of Magellan Network – TMN a Reservation Software which was acquired Silver Lake, CEO of ControlPath a Compliance Software company acquired by TrustWave, President and CEO at CSS Software a Securities Processing Software recently acquired by Stephens Investments Holdings, and CTO and Co-Founder of Usinternetworking an ASP (SaaS) company acquired AT&T. Chris is a graduate of University of Wyoming with a degree in Computer Science.
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About BusyLife Software, PCS Software: BusyLife Software is a mobile software product company offering business and consumer software products for the retail industry.
Todd Litzman
President/CEO and Co-Founder of Brandwise
Todd Litzman was the co-founder of Showroom Solutions in 1998, which later merged with Brandwise. In addition to leading Brandwise, Todd is actively involved with the Gift and Home Trade Association (GHTA). Todd has more than 25 years experience in designing, developing, installing and supporting computerized point of sale, inventory management, and sales process automation systems. Prior to starting Brandwise, he was an independent consultant for Paramount Parks, Inc., and was responsible for the recommendation and implementation of ticketing, concessions, merchandising and inventory control systems for five major theme parks in the United States and one in Canada during this two year project.
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About Brandwise: Brandwise is an Application Service Provider that delivers sales solutions to suppliers and their sales organizations.
Eric Stegemann
CEO of TRIBUS
Eric Stegemann brings years of experience and expertise to his role as Director of Strategy for TRIBUS. Having become a REALTOR before reaching the age of 20, Eric grew passionate about an industry where responsibility and hard work were rewarded. While loving his days selling real estate, he knew there was a larger opportunity to build a technology-oriented brokerage. In 2004, he created River City Real Estate, which quickly became the largest independent brokerage in the St. Louis area. There he oversaw the development of numerous real estate technology breakthroughs that were well ahead of their time. The intellectual property developed at the company eventually became the framework for a new technology firm: TRIBUS. Formed in 2009, TRIBUS brings forward-thinking technology solutions for medium- and large-sized real estate brokerages across the U.S. and Canada. Eric is regarded as one of the brightest minds in the real estate technology realm and has spoken at a variety of real estate events, such as Inman Connect in New York and San Francisco, the NAR Annual conference, and numerous state and local board meetings.
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About TRIBUS: TRIBUS provides technology, strategy, marketing and operations solutions for real estate brokerages around the world.
Kelly Dotseth
CXO & Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Brandzooka
CXO at Visibl.
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About Brandzooka: Brandzooka is a self-service advertising platform that lets companies of any size place premium, targeted digital ads online and on CTV.
Joe Kellogg
CEO of Madwire
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About Madwire: Madwire provides digital marketing software, a powerfully CRM, and highly skilled professional marketing services.
Jb Kellogg
Co-Founder, Co-CEO, COO of Madwire
COO & Co-Founder
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About Madwire: Madwire provides digital marketing software, a powerfully CRM, and highly skilled professional marketing services.
Sunil Cherian
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Spirae
Sunil Cherian is the Founder and CEO of Spirae. Since founding Spirae in 2002, Dr. Cherian has built the firm into a profitable company with an emphasis on strong customer relationships and a growing intellectual property portfolio with a highly skilled team of power systems and software development professionals. Spirae currently has operations in North America, Europe and India. Dr. Cherian currently serves on the Boards of the Colorado Clean Energy Cluster and Colorado Cleantech Industry Association. Prior to Spirae, Dr. Cherian founded Sixth Dimension, Inc. for providing networking technologies for the energy industry and served as its CEO from 1997 until 2002. Sixth Dimension was acquired by Comverge in 2003. Before founding Sixth Dimension, Dr. Cherian served as Acting Director for the Colorado Manufacturing Extension Center and as Product Realization specialist for the Mid America Manufacturing Extension Center, both at Colorado State University. Dr. Cherian has extensive experience in distributed energy applications including distributed control systems, renewable energy integration, and distributed energy resources management for network operations, power management, and energy services delivery. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has over 35 technical presentations and multiple publications in books, journals, conferences, symposia, and tradeshows. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from CSU in 1991 and 1995 respectively.
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About Spirae: Spirae is an innovative technology company that delivers scalable smart grid solutions to global partners and customers.
Chase Dudas
CEO and Co-Founder of ZeroIn
Chase Dudas is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of ZeroIn.
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About ZeroIn: Virtual queuing platform to share incoming patients and track tasks.
Christian Braun
CEO of hobbyDB
Christian Braun is the CEO of hobbyDB.
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About Auto-Archives, hobbyDB: hobbyDB is a platform that allows collectors and enthusiasts to research, document, and showcase their prized possessions.
Christian Damstra
CEO of Damstra Technology
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About Damstra Technology: Damstra Technology delivers solutions that radically transform the ease with which an entire workforce is managed, tracked, and protected.
Pete D’Abrosca
Co-Founder & CEO of TableTime
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About TableTime: TableTime is a B2B SaaS startup. We provide the foremost data collection and reporting platform for the restaurant industry.
Rob Ratchinsky
Founder and CEO of ENGAGE
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About ENGAGE: Advance Fintech for Industrial Workflows
Ken Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO of Akonia Holographics
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About Akonia Holographics: Akonia Holographics focuses on the development of advanced data storage technologies based on holography.
Sean Gorman
CEO of Pixel8earth
Sean is a co-founder of Pixel8earth Inc. Previously he was the Head of Technical Product Management and Machine Learning Tools at DigitalGlobe helping build GBDX and next generation analytics for satellite imagery. Previously he was a founder of Timbr.io – a platform for enabling algorithm reusability and more accessible data science – acquired by DigitalGlobe in 2016. Before starting Timbr.io he was a founder of GeoIQ – a collaborative data and analytics company. GeoIQ was subsequently acquired by ESRI where Sean worked as a director of strategy. Sean has also previously worked in academia serving as a research professor at George Mason University. He is the author of 25 academic publications, four patents and one book. Sean received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost’s High Potential Research Candidate, Fisher Prize winner and an INFORMS Dissertation Prize recipient.
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About DigitalGlobe, Pixel8earth: Pixel8earth is building a crowdsourced and perpetually updating 3D map of the world for machines+humans.
John Butler
CEO of Atlas Apps
John is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego. While at UCSD, he published in the Journal of Hand Surgery and won the prestige award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research. After graduation, John worked with Zimmer and Biomet, two of the most prominent orthopedic companies in the world. Mr. Butler has over twenty years of experience in healthcare throughout the United States. He founded Atlas Investments and the non-profit, Rocky Mountain Relief. John served on the board of many other non-profits, including Operation Walk and continues to pursue a passion for excellence in healthcare.
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About Atlas Apps: Intelligent Productivity Assistant
