Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Florida 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.
Mariano Suarez-Battan
Co-Founder & CEO of MURAL
Mariano Suarez-Battan is a Co-founder and CEO at MURAL, a digital workspace for visual collaboration. He is a three-time co-founder and an inventor by trade, who is on a mission to inspire, enhance, and connect “imagination workers” so they can collaborate and solve hard problems together. Previously, he co-founded Three Melons, a video game studio that designed and published online games for clients like LEGO, Disney, Mattel, Warner Bros. Three Melons created more than 50 games as well as the soccer-based Facebook game Bola!, which had more than 20 million players globally in 2010 (1M daily during the World Cup). The company was acquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney, where Mariano served as Creative Director following the acquisition. He then co-founded Idea.me, a leading crowdfunding site for the Latin American region. Mariano is an active angel investor and startup advisor at Endeavor.org, a global non-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. As an Endeavor entrepreneur, he mentors other founders at various stages of their scaleup journey. He is a graduate of the Endeavor Leadership Program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About MURAL: MURAL is a digital workspace that provides a visual collaboration platform that enables teams to work remotely and efficiently.
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Alcyr Araujo
Founder & CEO of Mosyle
Founder & CEO at Mosyle
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About Mosyle: Mosyle is the leader in modern mobile device managment for Apple enterprise and education customers.
Issa Asad
CEO & Founder of Q Link Wireless
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About Q Link Wireless, Quadrant Holdings: Q Link Wireless is a leading provider of Lifeline and will give you a Free Cell phone plus Free monthly calling & texting.
Aaron Kaufman
CEO & Chairman of OpenMed
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About : OpenMed is a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care, and supporting real-time collaboration.
Gerald Hwasta
Chairman & CEO of 24/7 Software
Gerald Hwasta is the Chairman & CEO of 24/7 Software, leading strategy, and coordinating the product vision, go-to-market activities, and operations of the company. He remains focused on keeping the customer first and driving the growth of the company. Prior to 24/7 Software, Gerald held executive roles at software and network services companies including ePreop, SoHalo, and The Switch. Previously, he was the founder of Crest Equity Partners, a Silicon Valley private equity firm focused on technology businesses, and a founding team member of the middle-market fund of Silver Lake, the world’s leading private investor in technology businesses. In the early years of the internet, Gerald was with Sun Microsystems where he led a business responsible for building network appliances, and with Cobalt Networks, a pioneer designer and developer of Linux server appliances for the hosted internet, where he led Corporate Development. Gerald graduated summa cum laude with a BS, Computer Information Systems, from Baldwin Wallace University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of ePreop; a California-based SaaS company focused on the healthcare market. Gerald is an avid sports fan and remains active outdoors, on the sports fields, and in the ocean with his wife and three sons.
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About 24/7 Software, Crest Equity Partners: 24/7 Software is a leading provider of operations management software solutions for operations centers.
Jim Riley
Co – Founder & CEO of iCare
Jim Riley is the co-founder and CEO of iCare and has over 15 years of leadership experience in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. Mr. Riley had a single mission in mind when founding iCare in 2011; to create an on-demand health information management service to replace traditional enterprise software technology in the healthcare sector. Prior to founding iCare, Mr. Riley founded Learn.com, a cloud-based Human Capital Management provider where he acted as Chairman & CEO until the sale of the company. The innovative product set pioneered at Learn.com, is now part of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Riley led the company to the top of the industry in terms of customer success, analyst acclaim and product innovation. Mr. Riley received a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and served as a fighter pilot in the U.S. military.
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
Paul L Hunter
President & Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Sterling Payment Technologies
A Tampa businessman for more than 30 years, Mr. Hunter became involved in the payment industry by investing and serving on the board of a small developer of electronic payment technology. During his 12 years as a merchant, Mr. Hunter helped test and install a PC based point of sale system designed for a specific auto service vertical. That experience, coupled with his experience investing in payment gateway development in the late 1990s, led him to start Sterling Payment Technologies. Mr. Hunter launched Sterling Payment Technologies with a long-term commitment to building a technology focused payment processor from the ground up. Mr. Hunter received a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia in 1977. Before and during college he worked in the banking and grocery industries. After receiving an MBA from Georgia State University in 1980, he held a position with Smith Barney selling stocks, bonds, and private placements primarily to small financial institutions, large private investors and retirement plans.
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About Sterling Payment Technologies: Sterling Payment Technologies is one of the most innovative, customer-focused payment processors in the industry.
Jay Patel
CEO of IMImobile
Jay was part of the founding team at SPARK and is currently responsible for the investments in IMI, MarketClusters, OpenX and Gambling Compliance. He was previously involved in Kobalt, Firebox, and mblox and has led a number of past exits (including Skinkers, Complinet, Unanimis and elata). He was previously a Director of NewMedia Investors and held executive positions at UBS Warburg and BSkyB. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and holds degrees from INSEAD and the London School of Economics.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Amer Abuobeid
Founder & CEO of Arculi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) data scientist, business continuity and digital risks handler, incident response and crisis redemption leader. I lead projects with cutting-edge technologies to find the best alignment between client’s needs and business requirements and goals. Challenge hunter, leader, and team player. No one is perfect, but I do things right, the way things supposed to be done. Every workday is a new challenge. I look at challenges as opportunities to understand my strengths and weaknesses and develop the required skill set to exceed expectations.
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About Arculi: Ethical and reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions.
Ori Tamuz
Founder & CEO of DoorLoop
Ori Tamuz is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at DoorLoop.
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About DoorLoop: DoorLoop is a rental property management software that offers screening tenants, collects rent, and manages accounting services.
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Danyell Jones
Chief Executive Officer of CrowdMed
Danyell has more than 15 years of progressive and diverse experience at the executive level driving revenue and increasing operational efficiency in environments such as healthcare consulting, healthcare and biotech startups, professional banking, and finance with an emphasis on producing dramatic revenue growth. Prior to joining CrowdMed she was recognized by Siemens Healthwork’s collective as one of the nation’s leading thinkers on healthcare and has been featured several healthcare industry publications.
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About CrowdMed: CrowdMed provides prediction market technology using the collective intelligence of ‘medical detectives’ to produce diagnostic suggestions.
Ty Crandall
CEO of Credit Suite
With over 16 years of financial experience Ty has become the authority in business credit business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair. Ty began his career in finance brokering mortgage loans as he started his own mortgage company that brokered over 100 million in loans in its first year. While building his mortgage company Ty noticed that many loan applicants desperately needed help with improving their credit files. He started a credit repair company to answer this need and help more of his clients qualify for loans. That small credit company exploded with growth to become one of the most reputable credit repair firms in the Southeast United States. After adding business credit services and further growing the business Ty accepted an offer to sell the credit company in 2012. Today Ty is one of only a few credit repair business owners in the United States to successfully build a credit repair company from the ground up and sell it for a profit. Ty serves as the Director of Business Credit Services at DisputeSuite. In his first year alone he helped hundreds of clients start offering business credit and funding to their clients. He has overseen the business credit building for thousands of clients and has been crucial to growing the most credible business coaching operation in the United States. With DisputeSuite Ty consults with and advises some of the largest finance companies and lenders in the nation on business credit building and scoring.
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About Credit Suite: Credit Suite helps businesses get capital by improving fundability, building business credit, and getting loans & credit lines
Rick Carlson
CEO & Co-Founder of SharpSpring
Rick is a founder and CEO of SharpSpring. He started with the goal of bringing marketing analytics and automation tools to small and medium businesses on an affordable and easy-to-use SaaS platform. Rick has over 15 years of executive management experience in the technology sector, holding president, CEO, general manager, and board positions at several successful Internet security companies. When Rick is not working on SharpSpring, he is busy with his second, and far more complex start-up – his two sons. Sometimes, Rick still gets to play beach volleyball, and occasionally, his wife politely laughs at his jokes.
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About SharpSpring, SharpSpring: A rapidly growing provider of marketing automation solutions with exceptional ease-of-use and a sophisticated feature-set
Max Eliscu
Chief Executive Officer of Viewpost
Max has been building and scaling businesses in the B2B space for nearly two decades, first as the founder of LSQ Funding Group and more recently as the founder of Viewpost. He is CEO of both companies. In creating LSQ Funding Group, Max set out to help small to midsize businesses access working capital through quick and efficient invoice financing. Fueled by referral relationships with the nation’s leading banks, including U.S. Bank and Bank of America, LSQ to date has provided more than $14 billion in financing to small businesses. The scale and structure of financing operations at LSQ placed it at the epicenter of the B2B market’s transactional inefficiency. Max saw the opportunity amid the arcane, largely paper-based methods many businesses still use to send, receive and make payment, and launched Viewpost. Viewpost offers businesses of every size, across AR/AP, a secure business network that removes the barriers to exchanging invoices and payments electronically. The network connects businesses and people to data that is used to improve efficiency, collaboration and cash flow management, while drastically reducing the need for paper-based processes. Recognizing the shared interest between Viewpost and financial institutions, Max and his leadership team forged partnerships with U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank and others soon to be announced, aiming to accelerate the elimination of paper invoices and payments for every business, big or small. To date, more than $24 billion has transacted over Viewpost. To feed the rapid growth of LSQ Funding Group and Viewpost, Max has raised more than $240 million in equity capital over the last three years.
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About Forbes Technology Council, LSQ, Viewpost: Viewpost helps big businesses streamline payments, eliminate paper checks, and earn cash back on payments to vendors.
Travis Leonardi
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Sentry Data Systems
Company founder and CEO, Travis Leonardi, RPh, CP, has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare. A serial entrepreneur and pharmacist, he has founded several companies, all within the healthcare industry. His clinical expertise, combined with his business and leadership experience, has made him acutely aware of what it takes to gather critical information from difficult environments. He is a graduate of St. John’s Pharmacy School in New York.
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About Agilum Healthcare Intelligence, Sentry Data Systems: Sentry Data Systems, Inc. provides technology solutions that help healthcare providers.
Douglas Logan
CEO and Principal Consultant of Cyber Ninjas
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About Cyber Ninjas: Cyber Ninjas is a provider of a a software security consulting services.
Champ Bennett
Co-Founder, CEO of Capsule
3x founder focused on democratizing creativity.
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About Capsule: Effortless video tools for businesses.
Rony Abovitz
Founder & CEO of Sun and Thunder
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About Sun and Thunder: Sun and Thunder focuses on artificial intelligence and interactive storytelling.
Donald Scherer
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of CrossBorder Solutions
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About CrossBorder Solutions: CrossBorder Solutions is the global leader in technology-driven tax solutions.
Justin Mitchell
Founder & CEO of Yac
Justin Mitchell is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yac.
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About Getsyrup.com, SoFriendly, Yac: Yac is an asynchronous voice messaging platform for remote teams.
David Henshall
President and CEO of Citrix Systems
David Henshall was appointed president & chief executive officer for Citrix in July 2017. He is also a member of the board of directors. As CEO, Henshall is responsible for overseeing all business functions, go-to-market activities, attainment of our strategic, operational and financial goals, and is the primary management interface with the board of directors. Prior to being appointed to CEO, Henshall served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Citrix. In those roles, he oversaw the company’s worldwide finance, operations and administration organizations. He joined Citrix as vice president and CFO in 2003; was appointed senior vice president and CFO in 2006; and appointed as chief operating officer and CFO in 2011. In addition, he served as acting CEO and president of Citrix in 2013 and 2014. Prior to joining Citrix, he served as chief financial officer of Rational Software Corporation, a software company acquired by IBM Corporation in 2003, and also held various finance positions at Cypress Semiconductor and Samsung. With his tenure at Citrix, he brings over 25 years of technology management experience to the role, and has deep knowledge of Citrix’s business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of LogMeIn.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
John Zettel
Chief Executive Officer of AVI-SPL
John Zettel leads AVI-SPL by setting goals, shaping and sharing company values, and helping plan the strategy that keeps AVI-SPL providing the industry’s best AV and video communications solutions and services. He works closely with the executive leadership to develop goals, plans, and policies.
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About AVI-SPL: AVI-SPL is recognized as an innovative leader in the collaboration and AV industry, the result of a 2008 merger between Audio Visual
Brad Title
President, CEO and Founder of Gubagoo
Brad Title is the president, CEO, and founder of Gubagoo. Prior to that, Brad served as the vice president of sales at DME Automotive. He is a former national program manager at Cobalt and president and CEO of Cowboy Corp.
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About Gubagoo: Gubagoo is a leading provider of dealer live chat, text, video and Messenger solutions for the automotive industry.
William Burton
CEO of Casheer
Co-Founder and CEO www.Casheer.net
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About Casheer: Casheer is a multi-currency, consumer-to-merchant payment platform.
Tal J. Zlotnitsky
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Our.Love
A life-long learner who is inquisitive and curious; an avid reader who enjoys developing a broad knowledge base as well as a depth of knowledge; a natural leader; my objectives are to continue to improve as a human, as a father, mentor, friend and entrepreneur through learning from the experience of accomplished leaders and wise laypersons alike; through building relationships and alliances; and through taking risks for ideas I believe in and am passionate about. That, and baseball.
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About Our.Love: “It’s like Home Design Meets Noom, but for Relationships”
Glen Wakeman
CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchPad Holdings, LLC
Glen R. Wakeman, CEO of LaunchPad Holdings, is a highly successful Financial Services Executive, Board Member, Public Company CEO, Small Business Owner, Investor and Executive Mentor, with a 21 year management background in business development and P&L roles. Glen is passionate about building businesses by improving company and individual agility, and by applying a proven methodology that assesses and improves 5 key dimensions of performance: Leadership (preparing the company for change); Human Capital (aligning vision, strategy and tactics); Execution (integrating process, technology and people); Risk Management (minimizing disruptions); and Governance (enabling constructive dissent). Currently, Glen R. Wakeman is the CEO and Founder of LaunchPad Holdings that includes a fully automated Software service that enables early stage entrepreneurs to organize their ideas into workable plan; it’s user base is national in scope and is enjoying an accelerating growth curve. LaunchPad ToolKit is complemented by a broad and deep library of tips and suggestions available for guidance to entrepreneurs as they form their company and is supported by an extensive ecosystem of capital providers and advisors. He received several local, national and international awards for his leadership and also his dedication to corporate social responsibility. Glen received his MBA from the University of Chicago, his BS in Economics and Finance from the University of Scranton, and is Six Sigma Black Belt certified.
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About LaunchPad Holdings, LLC: A fully automated A Software service that enables early stage entrepreneurs to organize their ideas ideas into workable plan.
Michael Shalom
President and CEO of Intcomex
Michael F. Shalom is a co-founder of [Intcomex](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/intcomex), a company that offers IT products such as self-standing computer systems, PC components, peripherals, power protection, and backup devices. Previously, he was the CEO of IFX Corp and FirstRain.
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About Intcomex: Intcomex provides IT products such as self-standing computer systems, PC components, peripherals, power protection and backup devices.
Gustavo Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of BabySparks
Gustavo Rodriguez previously worked as an investment banker for JPMorgan (NY) and Merrill Lynch (London). During his years with JPM and ML Gustavo focused in the consumer & retail sectors, providing advice to key clients like Nestle, Danone, Unilever and General Mills among others. Gustavo graduated Cum Laude with a B.S., Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University (Bogota, Colombia) and has a Masters of Business Administration from the Darden School (University of Virginia).
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About BabySparks: BabySparks is a developer of tools and programs to help parents engage their babies and toddlers in the critical areas of early development.
Mike Ettling
CEO of UNIT4
Mike Ettling was appointed a Non-Executive Board Member in 2017. Mike is a Masters in Finance graduate with over 20 years’ experience of executive management, particularly in the technology and HR Software as a Service sectors. Most recently he was the President of SAP Success Factors, the HR Cloud software business for SAP SE. Prior to this, Mike was Chief Executive of NorthgateArinso, a global HR services company. He has served as Vice President, Global BP Strategy and Operations with Unisys and started his career with KPMG and EDS. Mike is also a Director of NCC PLC in Manchester, Impellam PLC in London, and Business Connexion Limited in Johannesburg.
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About UNIT4: Unit4 is a provider of enterprise applications empowering people in service organizations.
Benjamin Grossman
Co-Founder and CEO of Pinpoint Payments
Benjamin Grossman is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pinpoint Intelligence. Ben sets the company’s strategy and oversees product and business development efforts. Under Ben’s leadership, Pinpoint has grown 150 percent in the past 12 months, while protecting its merchant customers from millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions. A serial entrepreneur, Ben has played an instrumental role in several penny auction website startups, including rockybid.com. As chief operating officer for one of the world’s largest online auction sites, Ben was responsible for risk management, affiliate fraud prevention, chargeback management and merchant processing. He also oversaw order fulfillment, a 200-seat customer service call center and vendor relationships. Ben was also co-founder and president of G & M Capital, a life insurance brokerage and marketing firm, developing partnerships with more than 40 leading banks and insurance carriers, including AXA, ING, Credit Suisse, Mass Mutual and Transamerica. He originally began his business career in the mortgage and insurance industries. Ben is an active member of the Electronic Transactions Association where he sits on the Political Action Committee and is the Co-Chair of the Big Data Sub-Committee as well as the Risk and Fraud Council. Mr. Grossman is also a member of the Merchant Acquirers Committee
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About Pinpoint Payments, Pinpoint Payments: Pinpoint Payments is a fast-growing provider of payment processing systems.
Gene Scheurer
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearsense
Gene Scheurer is the Executive Chairman of Optimum Healthcare IT. A trusted business partner for multiple healthcare systems across the U.S. He is a proven leader in the implementation of complex health care IT projects throughout the U.S. In the past five years, he has worked with some of the top healthcare providers to provide flexible clinical application solutions, saving providers millions of dollars in implementation costs. Currently, he and his team are overseeing training and implementation programs, from full-scale project management of large health system implementations to one-member augmentation teams. In addition, he is working closely with multiple government agencies and private sector companies to advance the role of information technology in healthcare. As Executive Director of Optimum Healthcare IT, he sets strategies and culture for the company, oversees profit and loss, sits on the board of directors, drives revenue through strategic partnerships and evaluates talent for the growth of his firm. Mr. Scheurer began his career in IT consulting, providing solutions for several large national companies before directing the staffing efforts for Fidelity Information Services, a Fortune 200 company with more than 36,000 employees. As director of staffing for the St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), he utilized his IT background to implement an automated recruiting system that streamlined recruiting, reducing costs by more than $700,000 in the first year alone. At Optimum, their motivation and passion is about supporting their client’s success and healthy outcomes for their patients.
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About Clearsense, Optimum Healthcare IT: Clearsense is a data platform for healthcare that enables real-time insights into clinical, operational, and financial metrics.
Roberto Machado
Co-Founder & CEO of BetaBlocks
Roberto is a Managing Partner at Marketfit.us, an acceleration platform for second stage startups and the co-founder of Betablocks, a blockchain solutions company. He is also mentor at Google Developers Launchpad and advises startups looking to scale in the US. He is an active member of the Tech Coast Angels in Los Angeles and and the Miami Angels. He has invested in 17 companies, including Virgin Hyperloop One, uBeam, Jump Bikes, Movo Cash, Connected Signals, Papaya Payments, etc. He is also a crypto/ICO investor. He holds BAs in Management and in Economics from Wittenberg University, with MBAs in France and Brazil. He also has a degree in Venture Capital from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
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About BetaBlocks, MarketFit: BetaBlocks is a Co-Builder and Accelerator of early-stage blockchain technology companies.
Raj Koneru
Founder & CEO of Kore.ai
Raj Koneru is the Founder/CEO of [Kore](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kore#/entity), . Prior to this, he was the Founder/CEO of Kony. Previously, he was the co-founder/CEO of Intelligroup, Seranova & iTouchPoint. Koneru has studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He lives in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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About Kore.ai: Kore.ai, an AI-based enterprise focused on conversational and digital platforms and products.
Vasily Voropaev
CEO of Smartbrain.io
Previously launched the first remote work project in Russia (FL.ru) which at the beginning of the 2000s turned into the first active community of freelancers in the country and the region.
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About Free-lance.ru, Rubrain.com, Smartbrain.io: Smartbrain.io is a platform connecting companies with the best IT specialists from Eastern Europe.
Daniel Cane
CEO of Modernizing Medicine
Daniel is President and CEO of South Florida based Modernizing Medicine, Inc. – a healthcare company that is revolutionizing the way in which medical information is created, consumed, and utilized to increase efficiency, lower costs, and improve outcomes. Founded in 2010 Modernizing Medicine has grown to over 100 employees and has raised over $19.1M in funding. It was named “Best Startup” at the South Florida Business Journal’s 2011 Entrepreneur Awards. In 2012, Modernizing Medicine was the “Business of the Year” and was the #1 Fastest Growing Company in South Florida’s “Fast 50.” In 2013 Modernizing Medicine was listed at No. 47 on FORBES annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies. In its first two years of sales, Modernizing Medicine has closed more the $20M in business and powers more than 14% of the Dermatology market in the US. Daniel has a BS from Cornell University where, as an undergraduate, he co-founded Blackboard Inc. He was instrumental in growing the company through five private rounds of financing – raising over $100M in venture capital and in 2004 helped take the company public on the NASDAQ (BBBB). In 2011, Blackboard was sold for $1.6B. Active in the local community, Daniel serves as the vice-Chairman of the Board at the South Florida Science Museum and is a member of the Foundation Board at Florida Atlantic University. He is an active member of the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, the Boca Chamber of Commerce, and several local advisory boards. Today, Daniel works, lives and enjoys life with his wife and three children in sunny South Florida.
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About Modernizing Medicine, South Florida Science Museum: Modernizing Medicine created the Electronic Medical Assistant, a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical record system.
Shakeia Kegler
Founder and CEO of GovLia
Founder of GovLia.
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About Camelback Ventures, Code To Eat, Envolve Entrepreneurship, GovLia, OPERATION120: GovLia simplifies procurement and certification processes for diverse businesses to increase participation and foster economic growth.
Jim Milton
CEO and Director of Campus Management
Jim Milton, chief executive officer, is responsible for leading the team at Campus Management towards delivering superior Student Information systems and CRM solutions to higher education institutions globally. He brings more than 30 years of experience at a range of innovative technology companies, where he has successfully led product expansions, mergers, acquisitions and sales strategies. Most recently, Mr. Milton served as CEO, president and director of SoundBite Communications, a SaaS/Cloud-provider of multi-channel communication solutions. During his tenure he transformed and expanded the company’s product offerings, orchestrated and integrated two acquisitions, and directed its ultimate sale to Genesys in 2013. Mr. Milton has also held senior executive roles at organizations that include: Intervoice (now part of Convergys), UGS (now part of Siemens), Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (Joint Honors in Computer Science and Economics) from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada.
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About Anthology, Campus Management: Campus Management is a provider of software, strategies and services which enable institutions of higher education to offer dynamic models.
David Massias
Co-Founder and CEO of Shadow Health
David S. Massias is the co-founder and CEO of Shadow Health, Inc. which is a multi-disciplinary educational software developer of rich learning environments and Digital Clinical Experiences™(DCEs). Shadow Health develops these educational environments to address the critical issues facing our national and global health care systems – maintaining quality-of-care in the face of increasing provider shortages. They are positioned to reform the status quo of allied healthcare education delivery by providing a virtual, accurate, and in-depth clinical environment to practice diagnostic reasoning, communication, and procedural skills. Prior to the establishment of Shadow Health, David was a partner with the V2R Group, focused on acquiring and commercializing university technologies (i.e., ICU Data Systems, Inc., Red Lambda, Inc.), and a member of the PricewaterhouseCooper’s mergers and acquisitions group in their New York City and Chicago offices since 2000. As an adjunct Professor, David was honored with the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship Program at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida and serves on education centric boards such as the University of Florida’s Innovation through Institutional Integration.
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About Draman Foundation, Shadow Health: Shadow Health provides a platform for medical, nursing and allied health students to engage in standardized simulated clinical experiences.
Wayne Steidle
Chief Executive Officer of PNS Communications
Wayne Steidle began his successful entrepreneurial career over 30 years ago. His business ventures include real estate investing and development, health and fitness centers, franchising, licensing, hedge funds, as well as other business ventures.
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About PNS Communications: PNS Communications, LLC is a software development company.
Aric Agmon
President & CEO of AOD Software
Under the leadership of Aric Agmon, President and CEO, AOD Software has become the leading provider of fully integrated software solutions for long term care communities, driven by his vision to help healthcare organizations improve business performance and deliver better resident care. Aric joined the company in 2000, and has been its CEO for over a decade while the company has grown more than 20 folds. He brings with him 25 years of software industry experience. He held senior international management positions with Hitachi Data Systems and IBM in Europe. Aric has led the acquisitions of 15 software companies. Aric has B.A. in Economics and Business Administration as well as an MBA from Jerusalem University.
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About AOD Software: A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based portfolio company of Primus Capital.
Sidney Price
Founder & CEO of Byi Byi
Sidney is Founder and CEO at Byi Byi. Sidney drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth with his wide-ambit experience in tech and non-tech industries the past 17 years.
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About Byi Byi: Byi Byi develops, markets, and operates a tech support mobile application that matches technicians with customers who request service.
Alex Santos
CEO and Co-Founder of Fortress Information Security, LLC
Alex Santos is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Information Security, a cybersecurity firm with a mission to secure critical infrastructure. Fortress has 45 employees and is based in Orlando FL, with locations in Columbus OH, Reston VA, and Boise ID. Fortress currently secures over 10% of the US power grid and critical assets. Prior to founding Fortress, Mr. Santos was the President and Co-founder of Digital Risk LLC . Mr. Santos was responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s operations as well as executing the company’s growth strategies. In 2013, Mr. Santos sold Digital Risk to Mphasis, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, for $202 million. Prior to Digital Risk, Mr. Santos was the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations for Connextions Inc. At Connextions Inc., Mr. Santos was responsible for all aspects of the company’s supply chain business unit (manufacturing, distribution, and contract packaging), including information technology, operations, client service, and purchasing functions for major clients such as Mercedes Benz, Olympus, and Harcourt, among others. Prior to Connextions Inc., Mr. Santos was a member of Ernst & Young’s Mergers and Acquisition practice serving Fortune 500 clients and major private equity firms. He worked on 60 transactions with a total value of $12 billion. Mr. Santos began his career as a financial auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In 2012, Mr. Santos was named a “Top 40 Under 40” by Orlando Business Journal. Additionally, Mr. Santos serves as an officer of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Mr. Santos earned advanced degrees in Law and Accounting from the University of Florida and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Florida Bar.
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About Fortress Information Security, LLC: Fortress Information Security is an information security and cyber risk mitigation company redefining traditional risk management.
Onur Haytac
Founder & CEO | Restaurant Software | POS | Point of Sale of Linga POS
Founder and CEO of LINGA | Restaurant Operating System | POS | Ultimate Cloud Solution for Restaurants.
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About Linga POS, Linga POS: Linga POS is an innovative global technology company serving the hospitality industry.
AJ Yawn
Founder and CEO of ByteChek
I am the Co-Founder and CEO of ByteChek. For the past decade, I have worked in the cybersecurity industry, the last few years working as a consultant sitting in conference rooms performing cybersecurity compliance assessments for startups, mid-size companies, and fortune 100 companies. Over these past few years I realized two things: Compliance sucks and I was complicit in making it suck. I launched ByteChek with my good friend Jeff Cook to Make Compliance Suck Less. Prior to ByteChek, I spent time in the U.S. Army and at a national cybersecurity firm. Here is a little bit about me: – I believe that the only way to fill the cybersecurity skills gap is by training and hiring more minorities and women -My most important job title is “Dad” – I have two amazing little ones (a 4 and 2-year-old) – I was a member of the Florida State University Basketball team from 2009-2011 and participated in back to back trips to the NCAA Tournament. – I am from Oceanside, California, and grew up on Camp Pendleton when my father served in the United States Marines – I am one of 9 siblings
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About ByteChek: ByteChek helps businesses build cybersecurity programs to enhance sales and build trust from customers.
Matt Redler
Co-Founder & CEO of Panther
Matt Redler is the Co-Founder and CEO at Panther.
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About Panther: Panther takes care of your remote team’s global payroll, benefits, taxes, compliance, and more — so you don’t have to.
Guillermo Garcia
Co Founder & CEO of SmartHop
Guillermo Garcia is a co-founder and CEO at SmartHop.
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About Grupo ALCARIN, SmartHop: SmartHop is a business-in-a-box platform that empowers small trucking companies and owner-operators to earn more while doing less.
Prashanth Rajendran
CEO of ComplianceQuest
Prashanth provides strategic leadership and directly oversees sales, marketing, partnerships, administration and overall company direction.
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About ComplianceQuest: ComplianceQuest is a cloud-based Enterprise Quality and Safety Management System (QHSE) native on Salesforce.
Albert Santalo
Founder / CEO of 8base
Global Head of Community at LinkedIn.
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About 8base, LinkedIn: 8base is a low-code development platform for building and running enterprise-grade digital applications.
Rick Heine
Founder & CEO of Flightdocs
Rick launched Flightdocs in 2003, with the first, 100% web based aircraft maintenance tracking platform. With a strong focus on technology and customer support, Flightdocs quickly gained traction in the industry, and today supports over 4,500 aircraft worldwide.
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About Baxter Marine Group, Flightdocs: Flightdocs has been empowering aircraft operators through our comprehensive maintenance tracking software since 2003.
Nick Gernert
CEO & Founder of WordPress VIP
Nick Gernert is the CEO & Founder of WordPress VIP & he attended University of Central Florida – College of Business Administration in 2000.
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About WordPress VIP: WordPress VIP offers enterprise hosting and support to publishers including TechCrunch.
Felix Rodriguez
Founder & CEO of Back Office
Felix Rodriguez is the Founder & CEO at Back Office.co .
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About Back Office: Finally is a fast growing fintech company whose mission is to help small & medium sized businesses automate their accounting and finance.
Seth Bernstein
CEO and Owner of Empower Software solutions
Seth Bernstein is a CEO and Owner at Empower Software solutions.
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About Empower Software solutions: Empower Software solutions, an Orlando provider of human capital management and workforce management solutions.
Anna Cheniuntai
Founder and CEO of Apis Cor
Anna Cheniuntai is the CEO and Founder of Apis Cor.
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About Apis Cor: Apis Cor develops mobile construction 3D printerы that work in polar coordinates.
Elie Levy
CEO, CIO and Co-Founder of Sunwave Health
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About Sunwave Health: Sunwave is a behavioral health technology solution that provides an end-to-end platform including a CRM, EMR, and RCM.
Jason Dolle
Founder & CEO of Testimonial Tree, Inc.
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About Agent Shield Inc, Testimonial Tree, Inc.: Saas, Testimonial Management, Reputation Management, ORM, Enterprise Feedback, Satisfaction Surveys, Customer Experience Management, CEM
David Koepsell
CEO & FOUNDER of Encrypgen
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About 4TU.Federation, Blockchain in Healthcare Global, Consensys Health, Consensys Health, Encrypgen, Impact Rooms, University at Buffalo, University at Buffalo: Encrypgen develops software for genomic data, empowering patients and donors, facilitating health, business, and science.
Lorenna Feliz Santos
Chief Executive Officer of DiaM Life Inc.
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About DiaM Life Inc., Hive Innovation Ventures: A Diabetes care and management solution that uses behavior science, and AI to improve results and outcomes associated with Diabetes.
Leonard Lekht
Founder, President and CEO of CyberVision
Leonard Lekht, Founder and a Chief Executive Officer at CyberVision. Leonard Lekht has built CyberVision into a successful IT company, trusted by dozens of clients globally. Under Leonard Lekht’s direction CyberVision has evolved to become the go to company for most complex development tasks and projects in mobility, telecom, consumer electronics, big data, and IoT. Prior of founding CyberVision Leonard Lekht worked for almost 15 years at the Chase Manhattan Bank as a Senior Technology Executive managing several major areas of the bank. Over the span of his career at Chase he had brought dozens of complex projects to completion, as well as being the catalyst for innovation and change. Leonard Lekht is regarded as one of the most innovative executives and a pioneer in the implementation of leading edge technologies and approaches.
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About CyberVision: CyberVision is a trusted global provider of software engineering services.
Gregory Moliner
Chief Executive Officer of Prima Solutions
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About Prima Solutions: Prima Solutions is a global InsureTech group in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific that designs software.
Kris Siemionow
Founder and CEO of HoloSurgical Inc.
Dr. Kris Siemionow is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon and an entrepreneur, who founded and co-founded multiple medical companies, that utilize advanced technology to improve clinical outcomes. Dr. Siemionow completed residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in orthopedic surgery and a spine surgery fellowship at Rush University Medical Center. His PhD focused on the effects of inflammation on nerve cell function. Dr. Siemionow is co-founder of Global Spine Outreach a non-for profit organization whose mission is to “save children with severe spinal deformities”. Dr. Siemionow co-founded Holo Surgical Inc, a digital surgery company that developed an artificial intelligence-based surgical guidance system, which is currently in clinical use. He also co-founded Inteneural Networks Inc, a company that utilizes machine learning to diagnose neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Siemionow co-founded Kardiolytics Inc, a company that utilizes machine learning to perform a virtual coronary stress test. Dr. Siemionow has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters pertaining to surgery and basic science research. He holds 25 patents and patent applications, which have been successfully commercialized.
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About Dystrogen Therapeutics, HoloSurgical Inc., Surgalign: HOLOSURGICAL is a Digital Surgery company focused on improving patient outcomes by bringing machine learning to the operating room
Arthur L. Allen
President & CEO of Adaptive Computing
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About Adaptive Computing, ALA Services: Adaptive Computing provides workload management software for high performance computing environments.
David Packouz
Founder and CEO of Singular Sound
David Packouz is an American entrepreneur, inventor, and musician. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Singular Sound – a company focused on making technology that empowers musicians to create better music. Under his leadership, the company launched the BeatBuddy Drum Machine Guitar Pedal and raised nearly $350,000 from Indiegogo. Subsequently, it became one of the most successful music accessory crowdfunding campaigns in history. The BeatBuddy has also received every major recognition in the musical instrument industry, from the industry’s highest honor of “Best in Show” at the National Association of Music Merchants to Guitar World’s Platinum Award for Excellence, and also induction into the Guitar Player’s Hall of Fame in 2015. Prior to founding Singular Sound, David was an arms dealer during the War in Afghanistan and partner of AEY Inc., a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. In early 2007, AEY Inc. secured a nearly $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with ammunition and weapons. David’s arms dealing story was published in the 2015 book Arms and the Dudes by Guy Lawson and was produced into the 2016 film War Dogs by Todd Phillips. He is portrayed by Miles Teller in the film.
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About Singular Sound: Singular Sound makes music technology to empower artist to express their unique sound.
Alan Shimel
CEO and Founder of Techstrong Group
Alan Shimel is the CEO & Founder at MediaOps.
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About Accelerated Strategies Group, DevOps Institute, DevOps.com, MediaOps, Security Boulevard, Techstrong Group: Techstrong Group is an omniversal media company that builds IT communities and provides a power source for people and technology.
Ricardo Villadiego
Founder and CEO of Lumu
Ricardo Villadiego is the Founder and CEO of Lumu Technologies.
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About Lumu: Lumu is a cybersecurity company that identifies threats and attacks that affect enterprises worldwide.
Jason Magee
Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise
Jason Magee is the Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise.
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About ConnectWise: ConnectWise is a software company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses.
Aure Bruneau
Chief Executive Officer of Stimwave Technologies
Aure Bruneau is the Chief Executive Officer at Stimwave.
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About Stimwave Technologies: Stimwave Technologies, a medical device company, develops and markets wireless microsize injectable medical devices for neurology markets.
Craig Swill
Chief Executive Officer of Lever Technology
Mr. Swill is the Founder and CEO of Lever Technology, a broad based portfolio of software entities, with a strong emphasis on SaaS. The Company acquires, manages and builds software businesses to provide exceptional returns on investment. Prior to Lever Technology, Mr. Swill has more than 15 years of senior management experience in the marketing & media industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Swill was President at CBS Media One, where he acquired, managed and profitably expanded a handful of community newspapers and digital properties. After three years of progressive growth in top and bottom line, Mr. Swill partnered with Housatonic Partners and formed South Florida Media Group, a company focused on the publishing and distribution of local media properties in South Florida. In 2009, South Florida Media Group expanded with the acquisition of Welcome Wagon from MOVE, Inc. and divested all non-core assets. A strategy to restructure Welcome Wagon, return it to profitability and invest in operations to position the business for long-term growth proved to be wildly successful. The Company was sold to Money Mailer in 2014. Mr. Swill also has 7 years of investment banking experience at McFarland Dewey & Co. where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, private placements and restructuring transactions and was promoted to Partner in 2001. Mr. Swill began his career as an Auditor at Ernst & Young in New York in 1991. Mr. Swill is a Certified Public Accountant from the State of New York. Mr. Swill holds a B.S. from the Stern School of Business at New York University and an M.B.A from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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About Lever Technology: Lever Technology acquires, manages and builds software entities with a strong emphasis on SaaS.
Anil Kottoor
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of MedHOK
Anil Kottoor is president and CEO of MedHOK, Inc., one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing software companies. With more than 17 years of IT experience, including leadership roles at four national health plans, Kottoor is a healthcare industry leader. As a visionary and passionate innovator, Kottoor has an extraordinary series of unparalleled success to his credit. Over the years, he has accrued an impressive array of accomplishments for his prestigious Fortune 500 employers and their respective clients – accomplishments that earned him national recognition in 2005 as one of CIO magazine’s CIO 100, an annual award that recognizes top CIOs for their innovative use of IT to deliver a competitive advantage and enable growth.
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About MedHOK: MedHOK offers a single platform that provides care, quality and compliance solutions for healthcare organizations.
Alex Nucci
Cofounder & CEO of Blanket
Alex Nucci is the co-founder and CEO of Blanket.
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About Blanket: Blanket develops a sales demo booking platform that automates the sales development process.
Linda Sheehan
Founder, CEO and President of Genius Central System
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About Genius Central System: Genius Central System offers enterprise software solutions in the natural product industry.
Steve Houck
CEO of Virtual Power Systems
Mr. Steven Houck joined DataCore Software as Chief Operating Officer in 2012. He is a proven Information Technology industry veteran with a successful career spanning a number of executive leadership roles with VMware, EMC, and Corel. Prior to DataCore, Mr. Houck was SVP World Wide Sales at Astute Networks an early stage, funded start up focusing on solving VM Stall in the data center through intelligent use of flash storage. Mr. Houck also co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer at GridTree Computing, a start up focusing on cloud computing services for enterprises in Latin America with a focus on Brazil. Gridtree’s services include ITAAS, PAAS, and SAAS offerings for customers from the SMB to the Enterprise. Prior to GridTree, Mr. Houck was the Vice President of Latin America at VMware, the market leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. He also held the position of Vice President – World Wide Channels, responsible for managing indirect sales channels globally for VMware. Previously, he was the Vice President of Worldwide SMB sales at EMC; and the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Corel. Mr. Houck also holds several board and advisory positions with publicly traded and privately held companies.
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About Virtual Power Systems: Virtual Power Systems provides an Intelligent Control of Energy (ICE) platform that unlocks stranded power capacity in data centers.
Saravana Pat Bhava
Founder & CEO of PikMyKid
Pat had been jolted into PikMyKid due to his personal experiences in school carlines. An ex-Naval fighter pilot and deep-sea diver with an MBA and BS in Physics, Pat is experienced in building teams and solving problems. He is a serial entrepreneur, having built and sold a few startups. His previous projects include Sachi Ventures, Inc., Tun-Du-Ree, LLC, and Spiceline Logistics.
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About Kid.io, PikMyKid, Sachi Ventures, TUN-DU-REE: PikMyKid is a school safety platform providing dismissal automation, panic button, parent engagement & traffic solutions for schools.
Adam Nadler
Founder and CEO of My Virtual Doctor
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About My Virtual Doctor: My Virtual Doctor connects primary care providers with their patients remotely
Maxeme Tuchman
CEO and Co-Founder of Caribu
Maxeme Tuchman is the CEO and co-founder at Caribu.
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About Caribu: Caribu is a family interactive video-calling platform that provides an engaging communication experience integrating books and activities.
Robert Deignan
Co-Founder and CEO of ATS Digital Services
Robert Deignan is the co-founder and CEO at ATS Digital Services.
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About ATS Digital Services: ATS Digital Solutions aims to aid with a wide variety of digital and technological issues.
Gregory McDonald
CEO & Founder of Cloudstar
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About Cloudstar, Diologix, eXcediant, LLC, Teletonix Communications, LLC: Compliant Cloud Hosting for Land Title, Real Estate, & Mortgage Processing.
Marian Phelan
CEO and Co-Founder of Hashrocket
Marian Phelan is a co-founder and now the sole owner of Hashrocket. She is a strong supporter of the software community, Marian has funded and overseen several technology conferences. She is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building and operating successful businesses in multiple markets, including hospitality, real estate, and the Web. She believes in flat organizations, team-oriented structure, and environments where collaboration can flourish.
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About Hashrocket: Hashrocket specializes in design, development, consulting and training for Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android and Ember.js.
Mansooreh Mollaghasemi
CEO of FleetZoo
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About FleetZoo, Productivity Apex: FleetZoo offers a cloud-based SaaS for field operations and last mile delivery, with real time customer notification
Manuel D. Medina
Chairman & CEO of Terremark Worldwide
Manuel D. Medina is Chairman and CEO of Cyxtera Technologies, bringing together a set of modern, software-defined cybersecurity capabilities with a global data center platform to deliver secure infrastructure solutions to enterprises and government agencies. Mr. Medina was the founder, chairman of the board and CEO of Terremark, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ until April of 2011, when Terremark was acquired by Verizon for an enterprise value of $2 billion. At Terremark, Mr. Medina brought his vision to deliver a comprehensive set of best-of-breed IT infrastructure services from world-class data center facilities to fruition. Under his leadership, Terremark distinguished itself as a leading global provider of enterprise cloud computing, data center and cybersecurity services for Fortune 1,000 enterprises and federal government agencies. Following the sale of Terremark, Mr. Medina founded Medina Capital, a private equity firm with a focus on emerging cybersecurity technologies, in 2012 and currently serves as Managing Partner. Mr. Medina is also the founder and chairman of the board of eMerge Americas, the premier technology event connecting the U.S., Latin America and Europe. He has been recognized with accolades from many business and community organizations for his leadership and community service. He is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from technology trends and global business to entrepreneurship and has served as a panelist and keynote speaker at large conferences and IT industry tradeshows. He also delivers inspiring commencement addresses to students at colleges and universities. Medina received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University.
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About Cyxtera Technologies, eMerge Americas, Terremark Worldwide: Terremark Worldwide is a provider of IT infrastructure solutions utilizing virtualization and utility computing technologies.
Michael Wiegler
Founder & CEO of Eyeride
Michael Wiegler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Eyeride.
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About Eyeride: Eyeride is a cloud-based video fleet management platform allowing to take back control over the fleet.
Bryan Edelstein
Chief Executive Officer of Eventplicity
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About Eventplicity: Eventplicity provides an end-to-end sales system for events that captures inquiries and engages customers.
Michael Mauerer
Founder & CEO of Teamwork Commerce
The Godfather of retail software, though he’d never admit to it. Creator of Retail Pro, Quickbooks POS and of course, Teamwork Retail. Enjoys a well made cappuccino and is a seasoned sailor with a penchant for playing the guitar.
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About Teamwork Commerce: Teamwork Commerce is commerce for the next generation of retail that enables transactions and fulfillment from anywhere at any time.
Gus Robertson
CEO of NGINX
Gus Robertson serves as Chief Executive Officer of NGINX and is a seasoned leader in the technology industry, including companies such as Microsoft, Visio, Lexmark, and Red Hat. Gus has a proven track record of building successful commercial offerings, strengthening open source communities, and driving customer loyalty.
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About NGINX: NGINX offers advanced internet infrastructure software to help companies deliver faster, more compelling digital experiences.
Richard Sikes
Founder and CEO of Hazlnut
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About Hazlnut: Hazlnut works seamlessly with most PoS systems; and integrates mobile ordering, loyalty and push marketing for small-medium restaurants
Frank Ferraro
CEO of Preferred Commerce
As co-founder and CEO of Preferred Commerce, Mr. Ferraro has focused on business development and operational structure. For over 40 years, Mr. Ferraro has made significant contributions to the horticulture, floriculture and agriculture industries. These include developing and running his own state-wide landscape business, Ferraro Landscape, in upstate New York; opening and managing several European flower-marts; and directing operations at a nursery that grew under 10 acres of shade. Mr. Ferraro has held leadership positions including President of the New York State Nursery/Landscape Association (NYSN/LA); New York State Agricultural Task Force; New York State Agricultural 2000 Committee; Advisory Committee-Cobleskill Agricultural University of New York; Commissioner of Highways-Town of New Hartford, New York; New York State Agricultural Fair-Assistant Director (Certified Fair Executive); and Board of Directors-Central New York Regional (representing the New York State Commissioner of Agriculture). Mr. Ferarro is the 1988 recipient of the New York State Nurserymen’s Association Hall of Fame Award.
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About Preferred Commerce: Preferred Commerce offers internet technology solutions for the horticultural industry.
Antonio Otalvaro
Founder & CEO of Raw Shorts
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About Raw Shorts, Vedia: Automated video content creation powered by artificial intelligence.
Rodolfo Saccoman
CEO & Co-founder of AdMobilize
Rodolfo Saccoman, graduated from Cornell University and received his MBA from the University of Miami, Rodolfo went on to lead innovation at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach. Rodolfo switched gears thereafter and began a career in investments at Morgan Stanley. In his spare time, he went on to co-found MyTherapyJournal.com, which won ABC’s “Shark Tank,” season one. After his success with MyTherapyJournal.com, Rodolfo decided to break the status quo to build AdMobilize. Passionate athlete, speaks 4 languages, global traveler. Lives in Miami with his wife and 2 awesome dogs; Karma and Teddy.
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About AdMobilize, MATRIX Labs: AdMobilize is a most trusted leader in audience intelligence for OOH & Retail.
Mahdi Hussein
Acting CEO of Petro Outlet
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About Petro Outlet: SaaS Comprehensive Management Platform for Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
Patrick Dyer
Co-Founder, President & CEO of DigitalEra Group
As a co-founder, board member and DigitalEra’s CEO, Patrick leads their talented team of experts dedicated to providing world-class security compliance solutions and services to businesses, the public sector and independent service providers. His vision for making world-class security products and service excellence affordable for organizations of all sizes is the driving force behind the entire team at DigitalEra, and is integral to what makes us uniquely different from other providers. Prior to DigitalEra, Patrick served in key security leadership roles at Microsoft and Merisel Latin America, Inc.
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About DigitalEra Group, Trapezoid: DigitalEra makes achieving the best security technology and expertise for your organization easier and more affordable.
Danny Jenkins
CEO of ThreatLocker Inc
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About ThreatLocker Inc: ThreatLocker is a zero trust endpoint security tool for companies.
Rose M. Harr
CEO of BlueWare
Rose Harr is a dynamic entrepreneur, humanitarian and CEO of The BlueWare Group of Companies. Her motto in life is ‘THE SECRET TO LIVING IS GIVING’. She pioneered the successful technology areas of electronic document management, electronic medical records and pseudonymization of medical information industries. With this she also founded company leaders and grew her employees to great careers. The Internet-based technology has enabled our growth. We are using management platforms that create the growth and ability to allow for Cloud-based offerings. We have provided millions of data points for doctors to create a more information based medical decisions. She later sold the software to over 200 entities. This technology executive really improved the ability for clinicians to see the complete picture of patients health. In 2014 Rose spoke at the Global Summit of Women 2014 in Paris, France. The talk focused on Social Media in Business, Rose received raving fan reviews from women from around the world. Simultaneously BlueWare launch yet another charitable initiative. BlueWare is giving the software away at no charge to hospitals and countries. This initiative is also available to established clients that wish to enhance the installed software with more functions that they many not have at this time. http://media.briantracy.com.s3.amazonaws.com/academy/rose_harr.mp4 In 2012 and 2013, BlueWare was included in the INC 5000, BlueWare received the distinction of being one of Michigan’s Top 50 Companies to Watch. Recently, Harr was honored as one of Enterprising Women Magazine’s Enterprising Woman of the Year for 2007. She committed to being a voice for women in business and holds memberships with the Women Presidents’ Organization–South East Chapter and the Enterprising Women Board of Directors. In 2007, Harr spoke to international women business leaders at the Global Summit of Women held in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 Rose Spoke at the Summit in China.
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About BlueWare: BlueWare is an International Strategic Healthware Solutions corporation located in Cadillac, Michigan.
Alex Esteve
Founder, CEO of CarBuckets.com
Alexandra Esteve is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarBuckets. Alexandra grew up in the industry as a fourth-generation car salesperson and had the idea to leverage the power of volume sales within the automotive industry using her experiences from working at the largest dealer group in Florida. Under her leadership and vision, the CarBuckets patent-pending process came to life, offering car buyers and car dealers a solution that alleviates major pain points on both sides. As a seasoned car veteran who understands the complexities of the industry, Alexandra began her formal career in the automotive industry in 2008 as the Marketing Director for one of the country’s largest Toyota dealerships. Within that role, Alexandra oversaw the execution of traditional marketing strategies, in addition to the conceptualization and implementation of new e-commerce strategies. Alexandra created and built the Internet department at the dealership, introducing online car sales to its business model. As a result, the Florida-based Toyota dealership became—and continues to be—a top 15 volume sales Toyota dealer in the United States, the top dealership in Florida, with online sales constituting 20% of all dealership sales. In 2009, Alexandra became the Vice President of Marketing for the dealer group – responsible for promoting the opening of several dealerships across Florida. She was instrumental in growing and establishing the brand, making the dealer group name synonymous with auto sales and exceptional customer service across the state. During her time as Vice President of Marketing, Alexandra identified numerous solutions that would enhance the buyer and dealer experience – all with the end goal to bring back the joy of car buying. She quickly identified the root behind the growing disconnect between car buyers and car dealers: the automotive industry still very much operates in analog, while today’s car buyers operate digitally. It is at this point that Alexandra decided to pursue her MBA, enrolling at IE Business School in 2011, to expand her business acumen, and most importantly to realize her dream of modernizing the automotive industry. After graduation Alexandra returned to the automotive industry with a newfound mission: to build a one-of-a kind automotive platform that speaks to buyers and dealers alike – that platform became known as CarBuckets. By grouping car buyers, CarBuckets is able to incentivize dealerships to cut prices, getting the CarBuckets user a real, group-discounted sales price — all without the hassle of negotiating. Under Alexandra’s leadership, CarBuckets is committed to removing the anxiety and stigma associated with the car-buying process. Alexandra brings an unparalleled creative force and entrepreneurial spirit to the team. In 2019, she was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Babson College in 2007, and her International MBA at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain in 2012. Alexandra was born in Puerto Rico, and raised in Miami, Florida.
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About CarBuckets.com: CarBuckets is a SaaS marketplace that leverages economies of scale most of the pain points associated with the car-buying process .
Lillian Roberts
Founder & CEO of Xendoo
Lillian Roberts is the CEO at Xendoo.
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About Xendoo: Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses.
John Gerard Stanton
CEO of Workstream
CEO at Workstream
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About Workstream: Workstream provides compensation planning, performance management, and talent management solutions and services.
John Verghese
Chief Executive Officer & COO of Nuvus Gro
John is a seasoned telecommunication expert with over 24 years of experience in building and operating local and wide area networks. He is well rounded in all the functional areas of the telecom industry from planning, engineering and operations to sales and customer support. John began his career working for Florida Power Corporation soon after receiving his MSEE from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. When Progress Telecom was spun off from Florida Power, he was one of the first employees to move with the new company and run the planning group for the subsidiary. He has managed several significant projects while at Florida Power Corporation and was a key contributor to building the fiber optic network from Tallahassee to Tampa, facilitating the launch of Progress Telecom. Over the eight years at Progress Telecom, John was the chief architect for building the broadband network that extended from Miami to New York, covering multiple cities along the route.
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About Infrax Systems, Nuvus Gro: NuvusGro (NVGO) provides advanced Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems.
Anson Tou Liu
CEO and Co-Founder of Qempo
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About Qempo: Qempo helps shoppers in emerging markets get on-demand products from overseas without importation hassles.
Marcel Freund
CEO and Founder of AVDA
Marcel Freund is the Founder and CEO at AVDA Inc.
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About AVDA, LEO CAPITAL GROUP: AVDA is an app that matches job seekers and companies with a mobile friendly experience in the Recruitment & Staffing industry.
Olivia Ramos
Founder & CEO of Deepblocks
Olivia Ramos is Co-Founder and CEO of Deep Blocks, a pop-tech company out of Singularity University, using artificial intelligence to optimize real estate development. Olivia graduated from three Singularity University programs, GSP, Incubator, and the Accelerator and was a participant in the DARPA Innovation House. She holds a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, a second Masters of Real Estate Development from the University of MIami, and a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Florida.
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About Deepblocks: Artificial Intelligence for Real Estate Development
Greg Ross-Munro
CEO of Sourcetoad, LLC
Gregory Ross-Munro joined Sourcetoad as CEO in 2008.
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About Data & Sons, Sourcetoad, LLC, Teburu: Sourcetoad is a technology consulting and innovation company.
Robert Sofia
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Snappy Kraken
Robert Sofia is a best-selling author, award winning public speaker, and financial industry thought leader. He has developed marketing strategies for Fortune 500® companies, consulted with over 1,000 financial professionals nationwide, and is the cofounder and C.O.O of Platinum Advisor Strategies – ranked #362 on the INC 5,000 list of America’s fastest growing privately owned companies, and #10 on the Agency 100 list of the nation’s fastest growing agencies. Robert’s work through Platinum has helped thousands of financial services organizations enhance their image, streamline operations, and drive revenue. As an advisor himself, Robert holds his General Securities and Investment Advisor registrations from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and he uses his intimate knowledge of the industry coupled with his business acumen to help other companies grow. Robert’s list of clients includes solo advisors, growing practices, RIAs, family offices, Broker Dealers, IMOs, banks, and insurance companies. Robert is the host of Investment News’ Practice Makeover series, and his work has been featured in many national publications and financial industry journals including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, FOX Business, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Financial Planning, Wealth Management, ThinkAdvisor, Investment Advisor, Registered Rep, and many more. He has authored two books and is currently working on his third, which is slated for release in June 2014. Robert has keynoted conferences for world-renowned companies including Ford Motor Company and Adobe; sits on the Young Entrepreneur Council for the most successful entrepreneurs in America under 35 years of age; is a Power 30 Under 30™ award recipient, and is ranked as one of the top-ten entrepreneurs to follow by Under30CEO.
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About Snappy Kraken: Snappy Kraken is a SaaS marketing solution.
